Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

W T Meyer <[email protected]> · Mon, 08 Mar 2004 10:38:35 -0600

This is just my $.02 worth, based on no real experience.
I like the idea of using a LabView front-end to EPICS since it combines the
strength of LabView (its user interfaces) to the strength of EPICS (its
rapid execution).
Has anyone looking into the idea of a CORBA interface from a Unix or
Windows machine running LabView to an IOC running VxWorks?
Tom Meyer
At 10:11 AM 3/8/2004, Ned Arnold wrote:
I recently had a discussion with the Product Manager of LabView

Realtime/Embedded about possibly implementing a tightly-coupled EPICS

interface to LabView. They have heard alot about EPICS from their

customers and would like to investigate what would be involved in
providing this capability in an integrated way.
The first question for us to answer is "what do we want?". So, I would
like to hear people's experience with the EPICS/LabView interfaces that
are currently available. I know of two major ones:
  - Active-X interfaces (for clients and server)
  - Shared-memory interface to standard EPICS records (3.14)
Please contribute your experiences, comments, ideas, wishes, etc with

these solutions or let us know of any others that have been done. For
those of you familiar with LabView, what other
capabilities/features/performance requirements would you like to see?
The goal would be to develop a list of requirements for the
"out-of-the-box" LabView/EPICS solution.
Please reply by March 12.

 Ned

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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