Experimental Physics and
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"Peterson, Kevin M. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 19 May 2020 20:03:52 +0000

Gary,

I'm most familiar with the motor module, so my questions will be focused 
on the changes to motor.

Should there be a YAML file in the dls-controls fork of motor?

I see the new ParamSet file:

https://github.com/dls-controls/motor/blob/pvi/motorApp/MotorSrc/asynMotorControllerParamSet.h

Was asynMotorControllerParamSet.h created by hand or generated based on 
a YAML file?

Kevin

On 5/19/20 12:03 PM, Yendell, Gary (DLSLtd, RAL, LSCI) via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> At DLS we have been working on an idea of Tom Cobb's making: PVI (PV 
> Interface).
> 
> There is an outline hosted on readthedocs: 
> https://pvi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contents.html
> 
> As a brief summary, the goal of PVI is to consolidate the duplicated 
> boiler plate of an EPICS driver (templates, low-level screens and the 
> parameter creation in the c++ code) into one place, allowing these 
> pieces to be generated instead.
> 
> 
> The main purpose of this particular message is to point out the WIP 
> branches of some key modules that have been updated for this framework:
> #
> 
> asyn - https://github.com/dls-controls/asyn/tree/pvi
> 
> ||
> #
> 
> ADCore - https://github.com/dls-controls/ADCore/tree/pvi
> 
> #
> 
> ADSimDetector - https://github.com/dls-controls/ADSimDetector/tree/pvi
> 
> #
> 
> ADPilatus - https://github.com/dls-controls/ADPilatus/tree/pvi
> 
> #
> 
> motor - https://github.com/dls-controls/motor/tree/pvi
> 
> #
> 
> pmac - https://github.com/dls-controls/pmac/tree/pvi
> 
> 
> Other modules that we would like to extend this to are include further 
> areaDetector drivers as well as streamDevice, but this has not been 
> pursued as yet.
> 
> We are hoping for people to take an interest in this idea so that it can 
> be adopted more widely than just at DLS, so any thoughts and comments 
> would be appreciated, especially from those who have an interest in 
> these modules and can comment on the new structure.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
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