Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Rees, NP \(Nick\)" <[email protected]> · Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:03:21 -0000

All,

A second message giving more details about the upcoming synApps workshop
at Diamond. If you are going to come, please let me know so I have an
idea of the numbers.

Title: EPICS synApps workshop on beamline controls - Part 2.

Details: Diamond Light Source will be holding a training course and
workshop on the synApps beamline control package and advanced beamline
interfacing issues from 20-22 February. The invited speaker will be Mark
Rivers, who has spent many years developing EPICS software on beamlines,
as well as being a senior scientist at the University of Chicago and the
Principal Investigator on the GSECARS beamlines at APS. The agenda is
given below, but within the three day constraint we will be flexible.

Location:
Most of the course will be held in the training room (Room 1.17) at
Diamond House, which is at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The full
address is:

Diamond Light Source Ltd
Diamond House
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 0DE

http://www.diamond.ac.uk

Agenda: 

Monday 20 February: Introduction to asynDriver
10:00-12:00 Introduction. Writing a simple synchronous driver for
register access. 
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Writing serial I/O and more complex asynchronous drivers. 
19:00-21:00 Workshop dinner

Tuesday 21 February. Detectors and Feedback Software
09:00-12:00: Detectors. The Scalar and MCA record. Practical with
Canberra MCA and Caen Scalar cards.
13:30-17:00: 2 Dimensional detectors. Feedback software using the epid
record. 

Wednesday 22 February. Interfacing to EPICS systems. Wrap-up
09:00-12:00: EPICS IOCs on Windows. Using IDL and Python with EPICS
14:00-15:00: Talk to a wider audience on experiences with the use of
EPICS on beamlines.
15:00-17:00: Workshop wrap-up. Any further questions.

Note that Mark will be staying on at Diamond on Thursday 23 February,
and may be available for some discussion. However, most of the time will
be spent working one on one with Diamond staff.

Accommodation and Transport:
For details on getting to Diamond, see:
http://www.diamond.ac.uk/AboutDiamond/Location
There is a range of accommodation locally. At the last workshop a number
of people stayed in the Crown and Thistle in Abingdon. See:
http://www.crownandthistle.com/. For further accommodation and transport
arrangements, contact Emma Medlock, Ph +44 (0)1235 778483,
[email protected].

Cheers,

Nick Rees
Principal Software Engineer           Phone: +44 (0)1235-778430
Diamond Light Source                  Fax:   +44 (0)1235-446713

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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