Re: EPICS for CompactRio

[Florian Feldbauer <florian@ep1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

Hey Ralph,

thanks for your reply. I will have a look into the IRIO and EtherCAT modules and discuss it with our target group.

Cheers,

Florian

On 06/07/2018 11:49 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:

Did you have a look at the IRIO support?

https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2017/msg00083.php

That's a Device Support, so you have an IOC database on top that behaves as such.

My experiences with NI's implementation of their interpretation of the CA protocol are mixed. It's basically working, but it's not acting in the same way as an IOC. (I have never seen it run on cRIO, though.)

Other than that, EtherCAT seems to be a nice way to integrate cRIO, and there is EtherCAT Device Support.

Cheers,

~Ralph

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:18 AM Florian Feldbauer <florian@ep1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

Dear all,

for the Detector Control System of the PANDA Experiment we are using
EPICS as control software. Only our target system group has implemented
their control system for the prototype using a CompactRIO from National
Instruments.

I have seen, that NI provides a so called EPICS Server I/O Servers
plugin which, as far as I understood, can be used on the CompactRIO
system to publish shared variables as PVs to EPICS CA Clients.

I'd like to know if anyone has experience using the CompactRIO with EPICS?

Does the plugin support fields like HIHI, HHSV, ADEL, MDEL?



Best reagrds,

Florian

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