Monday 29th April
EPICS Introductory Training
For further details and to register, please contact Andy Foster
Room G59, Diamond House
| 09:30 | Introduction to EPICS |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | The EPICS Database |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Channel Access |
| 14:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 | EPICS Device and Driver Support |
| 16:00 | The ASYN Framework |
| 17:00 | EPICS Training session ends |
EPICS V4 Working group
(Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th)
For further details, please contact David Hickin
This is closed meeting by invitation
Room 1.17, Diamond House
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Tuesday 30th April
Training Control System Studio [** This session is now Full **]
For further details, please contact Tom Cobb
Presenter : Kay Kasemir
Room G59, Diamond House
| 09:00 | Control System Studio (CSS) Introduction |
| 09:30 | Starting CSS, First Steps: Welcome, Views, Perspectives, Online Help, Preferences |
| 10:10 | Workspaces, Shared Folders |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | CSS BOY: Tutorial, BOY: Details, Web OPI, EDM Converter |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Archive System |
| 13:45 | Alarm System |
| 14:15 | Development Setup |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00 | Configuring your site (Hierarchical Preferences) |
| 15:20 | Authentication, Authorisation |
| 15:30 | Eclipse Products, Features, Plugins, Extension Points |
| 16:30 | CSS Extension Points: Example for Providing Logbook Support |
| 17:00 | Adjorn Training |
Training EPICS for Experiment Control
For further details and to register, please contact Jon Thomson
Room G53/54 Diamond House
| 09:30 | Introduction to EPICS (Nick Rees) Thin layer between hardware and data acquisition – Importance of ca_put_callback |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Asyn (Jon Thomson) Serial, TCP, UDP, others – C++, extending AsynPortDriver – Parameters, threads, connecting to the device |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Tours of ISIS and Diamond (concurrently) |
| 15:00 | Motion (TBD) C++, extending the asyn motor base classes – Compound motion – Trajectory scanning |
| 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 | 2D Detectors (Tom Cobb) AreaDetector – Standard plug-ins – Data flow and attaching Meta-data – C++, extending the area detector base classes |
EPICS V4 Working group
For further details, please contact David Hickin
This is closed meeting by invitation
Room 1.17, Diamond House
Accommodation and transport
Please note that there is no transport provided from The Cosener's House, Abingdon and Abingdon Four Pillars Hotel to the pre-meetings. There is a local bus service that operates between Abingdon and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, please download the map here. The timetable can be accessed from the Thames Travel website