Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Brand Dr. Holger" <[email protected]> · Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:48:16 +0200

 <<LabVIEW-CA Summary.pdf>> 
Hello, 
in the attachment you can find my summary of feedback concerning the
LabVIEW EPICS interface I got from some EPICS experts. Thanks to all of
them.

I will send this document also to NI and the GSI dicussion forum, 
http://forum.gsi.de/index.php?t=msg&th=124&start=0&rid=8&S=93499098400b9
eb5a9ab3f52bab390c1&SQ=ee0564bd158e82cdbca126e93ce9335c

Regards Holger Brand 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
> Von: Brand Dr. Holger [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Gesendet: Montag, 5. April 2004 16:06 
> An: '[email protected]' 
> Cc: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'

> Betreff: LabVIEW/EPICS 
> 
> 
> Hello! 
> 
> GSI will build FAIR, an International Facility for Antiproton 
> and Ion Research, 
> http://www.gsi.de/zukunftsprojekt/index_e.html, and therefore 
> we are evaluating possible SCADA solutions for accelerator 
> and experiment control. 
> 
> The two most important options are EPICS and PVSS/JCOP (CERNs 
> favorite solution). 
> 
> HADES, http://www-hades.gsi.de/ becomes part of CBM 
> http://www.gsi.de/zukunftsprojekt/experimente/CBM/index_e.html 
 and a lot of members of the PANDA collaboration are coming from BaBar
http://www.gsi.de/zukunftsprojekt/experimente/hesr-panda/index_e.html.
Since both communities are using EPICS today, there is a good chance for
using EPICS in the future.

Since our group,
http://www.gsi.de/informationen/wti/dvee/exp_kontrol/exp_kontrol_systeme
_e.h 
tml, developed an control system framework based on LabVIEW,
http://labview.gsi.de/labview/CS/cs.htm, we would like to save our
investments in that development. Last year we had some discussions with
Jochen Klier, NI Germany, about the extension of the Data Logging and
Supervisory Control Module (DSC) to large systems. I suggested to him to
check the features of EPICS and PVSS for ideas on improving the DSC
module.

On VIP 2004 in Germany I talked to Michael Santori, Buisiness &
Technologie Fellow of NI, about the plans of a native CA integration
into LabVIEW. Probably I will have a discussion with the LabVIEW core
developer team in Austin at the NI Week 2004. I also talked to Mathias
Clausen, whether this activity is a part of the EPICS 2010 activities,
but he did not know any details.

I would like to offer my participation within the task of integrating a
native CA interface into LabVIEW. 

Regards Holger 

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 <<LabVIEW-CA Summary.pdf>> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System