Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:56:07 -0500

Last week 11 people from 5 different labs spent several days at Brookhaven 
National Lab, working on enhancements and bug fixes to a variety of EPICS 
projects.  The results listed below show how successful we were as most of 
these projects were completed, although not all are in CVS yet:

* ANSIfication of Base
    Matt Pearson (Diamond), Michael Davidsaver (BNL), Larry Hoff (BNL)
* Waveform record post monitors on change option
    Matt Pearson (Diamond)
* New link flags MSI and MSS
    Bernd Schoeneburg (DESY)
* Long string field I/O as a char array
  * dbAccess: Andrew Johnson (Argonne)
  * catools: Ralph Lange (BESSY)
  * Perl5 CA: Andrew Johnson (Argonne)
* Character escapes and output field separator in catools
    Larry Hoff (BNL)
* Added new monitor event type DBE_PROPERTY, mbbi & mbbo support
    Ralph Lange (BESSY)
* ASYN: Eric Norum (Argonne), Marty Kraimer, Mark Rivers (UChicago)
  * Autoconnect redesign
  * asynReport output detail
  * Global and hierarchical trace masking
  * New asynStatus codes
* epicsNAN, epicsInf values in epicsMath.h
    Ralph Lange (BESSY)
* get_alarm_double returns NAN where severity = NO_ALARM
    Bernd Schoeneburg (DESY)
* epicsRingBytes now rejects partial puts
    Eric Norum (Argonne), Marty Kraimer
* Make PINI processing honour PHAS order
    Andrew Johnson (Argonne)
* Additional PINI states
    Andrew Johnson (Argonne)
* Rename pxxx variables to prec in rec and dev
    Ralph Lange (BESSY)
* Add SMOO filter to ai Soft Channel device support
    Bernd Schoeneburg (DESY)
* Field support prototyping
    Nick Rees (Diamond)
* Convert the ASYN Motor Driver into a C++ derived class
    Matt Pearson (Diamond), Nick Rees (Diamond), Mark Rivers (UChicago)
* Documentation
  * Record Reference Manual: Bob Dalesio (BNL)
  * General "what's missing" critique: Larry Hoff (BNL)
* Select JSON Parser and Generator
    Andrew Johnson (Argonne)
* Alarm filtering in analog record types
    * Design: Bob Dalesio (BNL), Eric Norum (Argonne)
    * Implementation: Bernd Schoeneburg (DESY)
* vxWorks: Generate TIMEZONE from TZ
    Larry Hoff (BNL)

My thanks to everyone who attended, and to Bob Dalesio and his group at 
Brookhaven National Lab for hosting the event.  The next EPICS Codeathon will 
probably be at Diamond, date TBD.

- Andrew
-- 
The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans -- Harold Welte

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System