Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Michael,

I have a question regarding EPICS fsmRecord that you have created.  One of our student, Charlie Costello, has been trying to implement FSM using your fsmRecord to existing subdetector system at STAR at BNL. 

As we are planning the strategy to actually implementing the fsmRecord, this question come up: what is the minimum version of EPICS Base should we be using? 

This is something we probably should have thought about before we started, but for a number of reasons, we didn't. 

The subdetector system in question is mostly running EPICS base 3.13 or 3.12 (yes, we still have them around).  For a number of technical reasons it is not all that easy for us to recompile EPICS base 3.12 IOCs (although not impossible, I suppose). 

My thought is we can always edit the database of those IOCs to add flnk to send the PV values to another PVs running on soft IOC somewhere to get the job done (not very elegant, but should work). 

Any suggestions?