Re: benchtop testbeds for EPICS development and testing?

[Kevin Peterson <kmpeters@anl.gov>]

I wrote a virtual motor controller in python for the EPICS Training at 
Argonne in 2015:
  https://github.com/kmpeters/VirtualMotorController

This has a few advantages over the simulated motors included in the 
motor module:
* the python script can be killed to simulate a controller failure
* the code can be easily modified to simulate bad behavior in the future

Kevin

On 05/11/2018 11:51 AM, Shen, Guobao wrote:
> Hi Gedare,
> The EPICS Core development and application development are different, although they are related of course.
> It seems that as the first step, you want to focus on the application side, therefore some soft IOC and simulators like areaDetector simulator would be a good start.
> You can definitely use simDetector to test your network performance, which gives you a reasonable frame per second depending on your server.
> Another advantage of simDetector is that it supports both CA and PVA, therefore you can test both CA and PVA performance.
>
> For the IO testing, unless you want to use some real hardware, you can use simulators which could give you same responses like your hardware.
> It is fairly easy to develop one if you are using asyn for your hardware IOC. We have some preliminary hardware simulators at APS for our ASYN based IOCs.
> Of course, virtual accelerator is also one of nice tool for your evaluation.
>
> Thanks,
> Guobao