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"Mooney, Tim M." <[email protected]> · Wed, 25 May 2016 20:31:28 +0000

Hi Han,

A number of us at the APS, in the beamline-controls and detector-development groups, have been working to run EPICS on the Xilinx Zynq device.  In the beamline-controls effort, the initial platform target is the MicroZed (http://zedboard.org/product/microzed), and the initial development target is the synApps softGlue module (https://github.com/epics-modules/softGlue), and the FPGA content used by softGlue.

Working with a cross compiler developed by Andrew Johnson and Steve Shoaf (the target arch "linux-arm") we have EPICS base, and the modules included with synApps that don't depend on VME or other hardware (e.g., asyn, seq, autosave, calc, sscan, etc., etc.), running on the MicroZed.   We also have most of softGlue ported and running (no field I/O yet; also no interrupt support), and have developed a simple procedure for adding custom components to the FPGA, and controlling them from EPICS.

Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Jeong Han Lee [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 2:09 PM
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Cc: Jeong Han Lee
Subject: EPICS meeting : HW platform support discussion group

Hi all,

   As you may know, the next EPICS conference will be held in Lund,
Sweden at next week (inspired by Torsten's Motor WG email).

   I assigned myself to join that discussion, then I was told today by
Timo to collect some subjects, which we would like to discuss during
that HWPS DG (HW Platform Support Discussion Group? hmm, not awesome)
meeting. Here is the description for that WG meeting.

  "Discussion about support of different hardware platforms (RPi, MTCA,
design sharing, open source solutions,FPGA...) in EPICS"

   I don't think, we are late to collect or share what we want to do.
Thus, here I copied ideas from Motor WG

       Thoughts ? Suggestions ? Special Topics ?

   One might get some ideas from also again Motor WG at
https://github.com/EuropeanSpallationSource/epics-mwg-discussions/tree/master/documents

   I would a appreciate all kind of feedback/answers as soon as possible .

   Thanks,
   Han

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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