Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jack <[email protected]> · Wed, 29 May 2013 07:56:48 +0200

Mark,
I'm developing softIOC on: Raspberry, BeagleBoneBlack and Aria.

I've an application designed to hundred of this kind of IOCs and like

you I don't know what could happen using those on production, more than

this:

What is the smartest and flexible and robust bus to adds I/O on arm

embedded ?

This kind of hardware could have a great future,
shall we try to select a common hw to share the developments effort ?

..open on sourceforge and "EPICSonARM" repo maybe a first step sharing

the code

Sorry Mark few infos from me, plus another questions,
Thanks,
-Mauro

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Mauro Giacchini

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
V.le dell'Universita', 2
35020 LEGNARO (PD) - ITALY
Tel./Fax. +39.049.8068558

EPICS _at_ LNL http://www.lnl.infn.it/~epics/

...the first EPICS installation to the project SPES realized from the
scratch in ITALY is in production since begin 2010!!

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On 5/28/2013 6:43 PM, Vigder, Mark wrote:

Greetings

I am looking at controlling some devices in my system using small SBC cards (e.g., PC104) and/or embedded small form factor PCs. I'm not very familiar with the products available and was hoping to get some advice on this forum as to what products people are using, what pitfalls are out  there, and general experiences with similar setups. I'm not looking at doing anything fancy, just run a soft IOC on a linux system to control one or two devices. I only need the standard I/O (serial, USB, network, perhaps some DIO). It doesn't need to be exceptionally rugged, though it will be running 24/7 in a fairly warm and dusty room, and may be unplugged and moved around regularly.

I want good software support. To me that means it comes pre-installed with a standard, supported linux distribution and I can cross-compile EPICS more or less out-of-the-box without having to resort to a lot of four-letter words.

We tried doing this on a Raspberry Pi - works great, certainly for prototyping. Cross-compiled and ran easily. But I'm not sure I want to use a RPi in production (or maybe it is good enough? Opinions?).

Any product info, experiences, thoughts, and opinions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Mark

Mark Vigder
Control System Architect
Canadian Neutron Beam Centre

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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