Personal Notes on
EPICS Collaboration Meeting, October 13-17, 2008, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
by Peter Zumbruch

Low Level Applications

redundant IOC which utilizes ATCA (HPI) support - Artem Kazakov - KEK/Sokendai

• using features of ATCAs Shelf Manger to make better decision for fail-over
• Shelf Manger
  • Data is exchanged through redundant IPMB (Intelligent Platform Management Bus)
• Redundant IOC
  • support is in BASE in 3.14.10
  • just download RIOC libs and link them to your IOC
  • How?
    • IOC1 and IOC2 providing the same PVs controlling the same hardware are attached to a shared network and share a private ethernet
    • within “a second” control can switch from one active to the passive, if IOC breaks down within 30s
• Possible benefits of ATCA-aware RIOC
  • Failures can be predicted
    • i.e. temperature rising iniates switch to back-up
• RMT - "Redundant Monitor Task" ??
  • Platform to program drivers for

RTEMS use at SLAC - Ernest Williams - LCLS

• Status LCLS RTEM-based
  • 136 Coldfire-based embedded IOCs
  • ... and more
• RTEMS
  • CEXP: prompt
• devIocStats - OSI-fied VxStats - Stephanie Allison
• RTEMS can now seriously recommended by LCLS as an alternative to using vxWorks

Fan-Out Timing Systems with two-way communication & cRIO-EVR - Jukka Pietarinen - Micro Research

• CompactRIO EVR prototype
• have a look at the talk

CLS Firewire Support - Steve Hunt - Alceli Systems

• www.lightsource.ca

An Introduction to Epics/Tango - Steve Hunt - Alceli Systems

• have a look

Development of Embedded EPICS on F3RP61-2L - Tadahiko Katoh - KEK/Sokendai

• BSP ELDK based

asyn: What's new - Mark Rivers - CARS

• Short intro
• asynStandardInterfaces
• Generic Device support
  • FIFO
  • ...
• future plan
  • asynPortDriver C++ base class
    • makes many things easier

Motion Control at DLS - Matthew Pearson - Diamond Light Source

• ...

Timing System Trigger Adapter Modules - Gram Cross - hytec-electronics

• ...
• nice Fusion application video