Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Thu, 13 May 2021 14:41:51 -0400

On 5/13/21 7:49 AM, Pavel Cheblakov via Tech-talk wrote:

Hi!

    Is there any "Getting started with EPICS7" or "EPICS7 for dummies"

or such, to get acquainted with version 7 new features?

One place to start is

https://mrkraimer.github.io/website/developerGuide/index.html

Marty Kraimer

        For example, for EPICS3 there are two essential presentations:
1. "Introduction to Channel Access Clients"

https://epics.anl.gov/docs/GSWE/developtools/EPICSTraining.IntroductionToChannelAccessClients.pdf

2. "Writing EPICS Drivers (and Device Support)"
https://epics.anl.gov/meetings/2009-07/talks/em_WritingEPICSDrivers.ppt

    We, the BINP SKIF control system team, plan to use EPICS7 because

of its richer type system, namely the following features:

1. 64-bit integer and unsigned 32-bit integer types.
2. Variable-length arrays.
3. Structured types.

But we are completely lost on how to deal with these novelties at C

level.

    Are there any documents how to get started with C/C++ client API

and Driver/Device support API?

With best regards,
Pavel Cheblakov
on behalf of BINP SKIF automation team

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System