Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"D. Peter Siddons" <[email protected]> · Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:23:58 -0400

Hi Emmanuel,

Not sure I understand, but I build detector systems in which I have
a Coldfire-based IOC, with all of the necessary boot files in flash
memory on the device, so simply powering it up and plugging in the
ethernet makes it available to other IOCs and clients on the net.
Switching subnets requires an environment variable change, but in
principle it could get parameters via bootp and avoid even that step.

Pete.

Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:

Hello all,
In though, I have been tinkering with a network plug-and-play epics

devices. Let's imaging that you have a new device you want to control

through EPICS. You connect it, power it, and allow for network

communication.
Now in practice, the device is not under epics control yet.
But what if the device includes an embedded computer with the associated

epics ioc? Then when you plug it to the network, the PV are immediately

available...
Is anybody using such a design?
--
Emmanuel

--
D. Peter Siddons
Detector Development Group leader,
National Synchrotron Light Source
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973
email: [email protected]
Phone: (631) 344-2738

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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