Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Matthias Clausen DESY -MKV2/KRYK- <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:46:24 +0200 (MET-DST)

>We've looked at our future requirements, and while the IRM may not be a very
>good fit as it stands, the option of using a '162 with some of the large
>variety of IP cards available looks very interesting.

agreed

>Perhaps some discussion of creating a "standard model" for supporting IP cards
>under EPICS might be in order.  As the IP interface (including module
>identification) seems to fairly well specified, perhaps we could take advantage
>of that information in the system configuration and initialization process.

The idea of standardisation is always good - but this only works if the IP-modules can 
really be identified by their ID. This rule is already broken by the IP modules designed 
for the IRM. You have to manually specify the type which in our case is done through 
environment variables in the startup command file.

Maybe we'll find some time during the next EPICS meeting to start the discussion over 
coffee!?

Matthias Clausen

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System