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APS EPICS brick (ebrick)

The EPICS brick (ebrick) is designed to be a low cost solution for an IOC with soft real-time requirements.

The current implementation is based on the PC104 Athena Single Board Computer from Diamond Systems Corporation with the following features..

  • Pentium III based processor clocked at 660Mhz
  • 128Mb of RAM
  • 4 serial and 4 USB (1.0) ports
  • VGA, mouse, and keyboard inputs
  • 16 ADCs at 16bit, 4 DACs at 12bit, 3 banks of 8bit digital IO
  • 40GB hard drive
This configuration provides a cost effective solution with sufficient processing power and functionality for soft IOC real-time requirements.

Furthermore, other COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) modules as well as in-house developed PC104 modules can be incorporated.

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