Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Carsten Winkler" <[email protected]> · Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:08:39 +0100

What is "CA Lab"?

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"CA Lab" is a user-friendly, lightweight and high
performance interface between LabVIEW? and EPICS.

This project uses proven EPICS BASE libraries (V3.14.11),
a "CA Lab"-library and 3 "CA Lab"-VIs.
Why another EPICS<->LabVIEW? interface?

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LabVIEW? needs only this simple interface to connect to
any EPICS variable.

You DON'T need OPC nor Shared Memory Variables nor Network
variables nor NI IO Service nor any other service to get
and set EPICS variables in your VI.

It's not necessary to create a LabVIEW? project to use
this interface.

No problem to create an executable of your VI and to
distribute it.

EPICS time stamp, status and severity are bound to
resulting values.

Epics variables are available as cluster:

* Values as string array

* Values as double array

* Size of array

* Type of received data

* Status of values as string

* Status of values as integer

* Severity of values as string

* Severity of values as integer

* EPICS time stamp as string

* EPICS time stamp as integer

"CA Lab" is open source and works with all LabVIEW?
versions from 7.1 to 2009. It has been tested under
Windows XP® and Windows 7®.

It should be no problem to compile source code under
Linux.
For more information about CA Lab, please see our page
http://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/CA_Lab/

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System