Re: Network plug and play epics devices

[Pete Jemian <prjemian@gmail.com>]

Emmanuel:

Yes, we have such a design in use here at APS on the nanoprobe beam line.
Controls for certain components are created by an outside vendor who
has integrated a system to be compatible with our EPICS.  A Delta Tau motor
controller is used to provide motion control.  It is interface to EPICS
using the Cosylab MicroIOC which is a linux computer running a soft IOC.
We add additional function to that microIOC from another IOC at the beam line.

Further questions?

Regards,
   Pete


Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In though, I have been tinkering with a network plug-and-play epics
> devices. Let's imaging that you have a new device you want to control
> through EPICS. You connect it, power it, and allow for network
> communication. 
> Now in practice, the device is not under epics control yet. 
> But what if the device includes an embedded computer with the associated
> epics ioc? Then when you plug it to the network, the PV are immediately
> available...
>
> Is anybody using such a design?
>
> --
> Emmanuel

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