Title :
EPICS: recent applications and future directions
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
Abstract :
The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is being used as the platform for the Swiss Light Source (SLS) and the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). We will look at the use of commercial companies as a way to outsource the labor required during the construction phase of a project. I will discuss the tools that were developed and the issues in having a commercial company provide EPICS applications
Keywords :
accelerator control systems; beam handling equipment; electron accelerators; field buses; high energy physics instrumentation computing; neutron sources; parallel architectures; proton accelerators; storage rings; EPICS; Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System; SLS; SNS; Spallation Neutron Source; Swiss Light Source; UNIX; Windows; field buses; front-end computers; system architecture; Application software; Computer architecture; Control systems; Field buses; Industrial control; Laboratories; Laser sintering; Light sources; Linux; Physics;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7191-7
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2001.987492
