Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:45:20 -0500

If you are addressing a motor that uses the EPICS motor record that is part of synApps, then there is a perfectly well defined set of fields available.  If you are addressing a motor that does not use the motor record then things are more difficult.  There is a database used by the GMCA and others for the Delta Tau motors, so that is another "standard".

But when you say:

>It doesn't matter if it is energy or whatever. My question is more towards motor records in general. 

It actually does matter.  Typically energy is NOT a "motor record", it is another type of record (e.g. ao) and cannot be addressed using the fields for a motor record senso stricto.

Mark

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From: Richard Pastrick [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 1:37 PM
To: Mark Rivers; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Motor Soft Record Client Interface

It doesn't matter if it is energy or whatever. My question is more towards motor records in general. If I am expecting to be addressing a motor, is there a minimum set of fields that I should always expect to be implemented?

-Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rivers [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:57 AM
To: Richard Pastrick; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Motor Soft Record Client Interface

Energy is usually not actually a "soft motor" per se (e.g. motor record), but another type of PV.  There is no standard being used.

Mark

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From: [email protected] on behalf of Richard Pastrick
Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 12:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Motor Soft Record Client Interface

I have implemented a client interface for EPICS motors on windows for an x-ray microscope and one of the key features was the ability to integrate with various soft motor records which control the energy axis at synchrotrons. I was wondering if there was a list of required fields that I could depend on to be implemented at each site or am I partially at the mercy of the controls engineers?

Thanks.

Richard Pastrick

Associate Software Engineer

Xradia Inc

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Concord CA 94520

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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