Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Paul Sichta <[email protected]> · Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:30:36 -0400

Wesley,
I suppose you've googled and searched tech-talk.

I've been using a Simple Channel Access (SCA) package with LabVIEW

support for years. It works but it has problems when an IOC is

rebooted, so I'm all for for a better solution but it has perennially

been a low priority.

Several methods are described at GSI:
http://wiki.gsi.de/cgi-bin/view/Epics/ConnectingLabVIEWandEPICS

National Instruments offers two solutions. The first is to buy LabVIEW

and the add-on Data Supervisory & Control Package, which has EPICS CA

support built-in. The second method which I haven't tried doesn't

require the DSC and is described at

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7987

-ps

On 07/20/2009 03:06 PM Wesley Moore wrote:

tech-talkers,

 Yes I know this has been done, but what's the difficulty in setting

this up? What is the preferred method and has the experience been good

or bad? It seems like the decision to support this is based on extent

of it's usage.

Thanks for any comments,
Wesley