Limitations of some EPICS base's records

[Abdalla Ahmad via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi

 

I have been wondering why some records only contains such a minimal number of inputs or outputs? For example the fanout records have 6 links, seq records have 10 inputs, subroutine records have 12 inputs, etc?. We started to have some applications where such numbers are really insufficient. I know that I can cascade records in case of exceeding the number of inputs, but I am wondering what is the idea behind such limitations other than field name length requirements.

 

Thanks.

 

Abdalla Al-Dalleh

Control Engineer

SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East)
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