Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

O.K., you gurus of the EPICS ether (I already miss Marty!), got a question for you.

 

Is it possible from with a device driver that before iocInit (or during some part of it) to programmatically build a database record for use in EPICS?

 

For instance, I’d like my device driver to have a few records available over CA regarding its performance and statistics.  I know I can create a AI for instance, and then a dedicated DB that references that tag (along with a few others…), but it just seemed a more definite direction if I could have the driver actually programmatically build and install the appropriate entries.

 

n  I know – I know – I’m crazy, but just trying to do thing “… down a different path”.

 

David Dudley Controls Engineer III Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Michigan State University 640 South Shaw Lane East Lansing, MI 48824-1321, USA Tel. 517-908-7133 Email: dudleyd@frib.msu.edu