Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I hate to jump on the bandwagon here, but it took me a couple of days to figure out the proper incantations to get the ioc for my Agilent 34980A responding to PV commands as well as CA commands.  I’ve got some pieces of how to make it work documented, but I won’t have a chance to touch anything else until mid to late March. 

Our lab has been looking at EPICS for at least 5 years, but we’ve never managed to get a real implementation of anything.  That’s partly because there are only 2 of us maintaining the lab and we don’t have time.  But I think another contributing factor is the gap in middle-level documentation.  There is some information about getting EPICS built and installed, and some developer docs.  What’s missing is the documentation on how to stand up an IOC talking to something that other folks already have working. 

I really hope to be able to contribute to that, but we’re working on an accelerator tank opening now, and there just aren’t enough engineers here to go around.

     Greg