Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 25 May 2021 11:04:05 -0500

On 05/24, Feister, Scott via Tech-talk wrote:
> 2x Pynq-Z2 (for simple input/output)
> Resistors, potentiometers, LEDs, etc (simple inputs/outputs)
> 2x PC with Linux (for central control and data storage)
> 1x managed switch for networking
> Various ethernet cables
> 
> Any other suggestions to get my students' feet wet with experimenting with and learning EPICS? Thanks!

Why two PCs?  I'm sure you could do fine with just one.  (But maybe
that's an intentional decision to demonstrate something?)

Why does the switch need to be managed?  It would probably be cheaper
if unmanaged.  (But maybe the prices have come down such that it's an
insignificant difference now?)

I don't know anything about the Pynq-Z2; is there an EPICS driver for
it?  If not, something else that comes to mind that you might consider
would be some USB devices from Measurement Computing.  Mark Rivers
has written EPICS drivers for some of them in his EPICS module called
measComp:

  https://github.com/epics-modules/measComp

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System