EPICS Collaboration Meeting fall 2011

3 Oct 2011, 08:00 → 7 Oct 2011, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

WHGA/001 (Auditorium)

Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

The EPICS collaboration meeting fall 2011 took place at PSI
the week before the ICALEPCS 2011 in Grenoble.

This meeting focused on technical workshops and trainings.

Monday 3 October

Registration Desk Open

1 Welcome

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Welcome_to_PSI.ppt

2 EPICS for beginners (Lecture)

Speaker: Elke Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Handouts Handouts.doc

Slides EPICS_Introduction.ppt

3 Running user C-code on IOCs

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides C_code_for_IOCs.ppt

10:30 Coffee Break

4 EPICS for beginners (Lecture)

Speaker: Elke Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

5 Running user C-Code on IOCs

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:30 Lunch

6 Epics for beginners (Hands-on)

Speaker: Elke Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Tuesday 4 October

7 State Notiation Language

Speaker: Mr Ralph Lange (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie / BESSY II)

8 Using the StreamDevice driver

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides StreamDeviceCourse.ppt

10:30 Coffee Break

9 State Notation Language

Speaker: Mr Ralph Lange (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie / BESSY II)

10 Using the StreamDevice driver

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:30 Lunch

11 EPICS for beginners (hands-on)

Speaker: Elke Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12 Writing CA Clients

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides ChannelAccessClientProgramming.ppt

Wednesday 5 October

Registration Desk Open

13 Welcome

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch

Slides Welcome_to_PSI.ppt

14 The EPICS v3 development roadmap

Speaker: Mr Andrew Johnson (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides EPICS_v3_Roadmap_2011.pdf

15 Results from the 2011 EPICS Codeathon

Speaker: Mr Andrew Johnson (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Codeathon_2011_Results.pdf

16 Server-Side Plug-In Framework

Speaker: Mr Ralph Lange (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie / BESSY II)

Slides ServerSidePlugins.pptx

17 Hard Rock CAFE

Speaker: Dr Jan Chrin (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides HardRockCAFE.pdf

18 EPICS Sequencer 2.1

Speaker: Ben Franksen (HZB)

Slides sequencer-2-1-slides.pdf

10:30 Coffe break

19 Another alarm handler concept

Speaker: Mr Alain Bertrand (PSI)

Slides new_alh.ppt

20 Prototyping the Next EPICS Archiver

Speaker: Nikolay Malitsky (BNL)

Slides NextArchiver.ppt

21 The PSI web interface to the EPICS channel archiver

Speaker: Gaudenz Jud (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides archIF-2011.ppt

22 A IOC based on PXI and virtualization technology

Speaker: Mr James R. Piton (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory-LNLS)

Slides EPICS-PXI-LNLS-Fall2011.pdf

23 Connecting EPICS with Easily Reconfigurable I/O Hardware

Speaker: Thierry Debelle (National Instruments)

Slides Connecting_EPICS_with_FPGA_Hardware.pptx

12:30 Lunch

CSS Workshop

Convener: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

24 CSS Intro

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides 01_Introduction_to_CSS.ppt

25 CSS application: BOY

Speaker: Mr Ralph Lange (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie / BESSY II)

Slides 02_BOY_AcceleratorTalk.ppt

26 CSS application: DataBrowser

Speaker: Mr Leo Dalesio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides 03_Databrowser.ppt

27 CSS application: Channel Finder Based application

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Movies

• channelviewer.avi
• multichannel2.avi
• pvtableprop.avi
• waterfall.avi

Slides 04_ChannelFinder_and_CSS.ppt

28 CSS Product: How to put together your own Site specific CSS product

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides 05_CSS_Product.ppt

29 CSS Infrastucture: the build and update mechanism, future developments

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides 06_CSS-Infrastructure-update.ppt

Motion Systems Workshop

Convener: Claude Pradervand (Paul Scherrer Institut)

30 Motion systems at PSI current status

Speaker: Claude Pradervand (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides EPICS_Collaboration_Meeting_fall_2011_Pradervand.pdf

cRIO and EPICS hands-on

Convener: Joseph Tagg (National Instruments)

31 CompactRIO and EPICS IOC

Exercises Exercises.zip Solutions.zip

Slides cRIO_and_EPICS_IOC.pptx cRIO_IOC_Exercises.docx

32 Feedback from LabView Users to NI

17:00 Tour

All tours start in front of Auditorium.

Thursday 6 October

33 ChannelFinder Service

Speaker: Mr Ralph Lange (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie / BESSY II)

Slides ChannelFinderDirectoryService.pptx

34 ChannelFinder: operational experience at BNL

Speaker: Mr Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Channel_finder_Operational_experince.odp

35 ChannelFinder & Control System Studio

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides ChannelFinder_and_CSS.ppt

36 Virtual Servers for Controls Applications

Speaker: Rene Kapeller (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides VirtualServers4ControlsApps.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

37 The PSI hardware inventory database

Speaker: Mr Alain Bertrand (PSI)

Slides i3.ppt

38 ITER tools and drivers

Speaker: Mr Franck Di Maio (ITER)

Slides EPICS_Collab_meeting_SLS_Oct2011_ITER_Tools.pptx

39 Marshalling data using the concat record

Speaker: Mr andrew starritt (australian synchrotron)

Slides EPICS_Colloboration_38_concat_record.ppt

Source Code concat.2011-09-28_17-24-12.tar.gz

40 EDM Screen Display using Python

Speaker: Mr Glen Wright (Canadian Light Source, Inc)

Slides Python_and_the_CLS_and_me.ppt

41 Portable Channel Access Server in Python

Speaker: Dr Xiaoqiang Wang (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Wang.pdf Wang.ppt

12:30 Lunch

42 EPICS on the Altera NIOS2 FPGA Softcore Processor

Speaker: Mr Jeffrey Hill (LANL)

Slides Embedding_EPICS_into_NIOS2_Altera_FPGA_Softcore.pdf

43 iPhone Apps for EPICS

Speaker: Mr Matthias Clausen (DESY)

Slides iPhoneAppsForEpics-2011-10-06.ppt

44 Beam-synchronous DAQ at SwissFEL test injector

Speaker: Mr Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides EP_BSDAQ.ppt

45 Using COTS Hardware with EPICS Through LabVIEW - A Status Report

Speaker: Mr Thierry Debelle (National Instruments)

Slides Using_COTS_Hardware_with_EPICS.pptx

LabView and EPICS

Convener: Joseph Tagg (National Instruments)

46 LabView Channel Access Server

* Features and demonstration * Hands-on exercise * Programmatic configuration for large deployment

Exercises Exercises.zip Solutions.zip

Slides LabVIEW_and_EPICS_Exercises.docx LabVIEW_and_EPICS_v1.pptx

Timing Workshop

Convener: Mr Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institut)

47 Timing goes Express

Speaker: Mr Jukka Pietarinen (Micro Research Finland)

Slides MRF.PSI.EPICS2011.pdf

48 "mrfioc2" driver status

Speaker: Mr Michael Davidsaver (BNL)

Slides epics-201110.pdf

49 Challenges of Timing at high repetition

Speaker: Mr Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides TW_HighRep_EventGen.ppt

16:00 Break

50 Event generator sequencer programming

Speaker: Michael Davidsaver (BNL)

51 Timing requirements of SwissFEL plus open discussion

Speaker: Mr Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides TW_SwissFEL_req.ppt

18:30 Dinner

Bus from PSI Auditorium. Picks up people in Böttstein and Brugg if necessary.

Friday 7 October

52 Introducton to EPICS Version 4 and its use use at BNL

Speaker: Mr Leo Dalesio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides V4EPICS201109EPICSMtg.pptx

53 pvAccess, pvData, pvIoc, pvService overview and status

Speaker: Mr Marty Kraimer (None)

Slides pvDataEtc.ppt

54 Interoperation with EPICS V3

Speaker: Mr Marty Kraimer (None)

55 EPICS V4 Discussions and Feedback

10:30 Coffee Break

56 EPICS V4 Normative Data Types

Speaker: Mr Leo Dalesio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides V4EPICSNormative_types.pptx

57 pvManager cookbook

Speaker: Ralph Lange (BESSY II)

Movie PVManager.avi

Slides 20111012_-_PVManager.pptx

58 EPICS V4 Services

Speaker: Mr Greg White (SLAC)

Slides EV4Services.pdf

59 EPICS V4 roadmap and charter

Speaker: Mr Greg White (SLAC)

Slides EPICSv4roadmap.pdf

60 Goodbye

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Goodbye.ppt

12:30 Lunch