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

08:30 → 09:00 Registration Desk Open

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Welcome_to_PSI.ppt

09:15 → 10:30 EPICS for beginners (Lecture)

Speaker: Elke Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Handouts Handouts.doc

Slides EPICS_Introduction.ppt

09:25 → 10:30 Running user C-code on IOCs

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides C_code_for_IOCs.ppt

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:30 EPICS for beginners (Lecture)

Speaker: Elke Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:45 → 12:30 Running user C-Code on IOCs

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 Epics for beginners (Hands-on)

Speaker: Elke Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Tuesday 4 October

09:00 → 10:30 State Notiation Language

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

09:00 → 10:30 Using the StreamDevice driver

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides StreamDeviceCourse.ppt

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:30 State Notation Language

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

10:45 → 12:30 Using the StreamDevice driver

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 EPICS for beginners (hands-on)

Speaker: Elke Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:00 → 17:00 Writing CA Clients

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides ChannelAccessClientProgramming.ppt

Wednesday 5 October

08:30 → 09:00 Registration Desk Open

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch

Slides Welcome_to_PSI.ppt

09:15 → 09:30 The EPICS v3 development roadmap

Speaker: Mr Andrew Johnson (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides EPICS_v3_Roadmap_2011.pdf

09:30 → 09:45 Results from the 2011 EPICS Codeathon

Speaker: Mr Andrew Johnson (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Codeathon_2011_Results.pdf

09:45 → 10:00 Server-Side Plug-In Framework

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

Slides ServerSidePlugins.pptx

10:00 → 10:15 Hard Rock CAFE

Speaker: Dr Jan Chrin (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides HardRockCAFE.pdf

10:15 → 10:30 EPICS Sequencer 2.1

Speaker: Ben Franksen (HZB)

Slides sequencer-2-1-slides.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffe break

11:00 → 11:15 Another alarm handler concept

Speaker: Mr Alain Bertrand (PSI)

Slides new_alh.ppt

11:15 → 11:30 Prototyping the Next EPICS Archiver

Speaker: Nikolay Malitsky (BNL)

Slides NextArchiver.ppt

11:30 → 11:45 The PSI web interface to the EPICS channel archiver

Speaker: Gaudenz Jud (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides archIF-2011.ppt

11:45 → 12:00 A IOC based on PXI and virtualization technology

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

Slides EPICS-PXI-LNLS-Fall2011.pdf

12:00 → 12:15 Connecting EPICS with Easily Reconfigurable I/O Hardware

Speaker: Thierry Debelle (National Instruments)

Slides Connecting_EPICS_with_FPGA_Hardware.pptx

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 CSS Workshop

Convener: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

14:00 CSS Intro

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides 01_Introduction_to_CSS.ppt

14:15 CSS application: BOY

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

Slides 02_BOY_AcceleratorTalk.ppt

14:30 CSS application: DataBrowser

Speaker: Mr Leo Dalesio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides 03_Databrowser.ppt

14:45 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

15:00 CSS Product: How to put together your own Site specific CSS product

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides 05_CSS_Product.ppt

15:30 CSS Infrastucture: the build and update mechanism, future developments

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides 06_CSS-Infrastructure-update.ppt

14:00 → 17:00 Motion Systems Workshop

Convener: Claude Pradervand (Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:00 Motion systems at PSI current status

Speaker: Claude Pradervand (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides EPICS_Collaboration_Meeting_fall_2011_Pradervand.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 cRIO and EPICS hands-on

Convener: Joseph Tagg (National Instruments)

14:00 CompactRIO and EPICS IOC

Exercises Exercises.zip Solutions.zip

Slides cRIO_and_EPICS_IOC.pptx cRIO_IOC_Exercises.docx

16:00 → 17:00 Feedback from LabView Users to NI

17:00 → 18:30 Tour

All tours start in front of Auditorium.

Thursday 6 October

09:00 → 09:15 ChannelFinder Service

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

Slides ChannelFinderDirectoryService.pptx

09:15 → 09:30 ChannelFinder: operational experience at BNL

Speaker: Mr Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Channel_finder_Operational_experince.odp

09:30 → 09:45 ChannelFinder & Control System Studio

Speaker: Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides ChannelFinder_and_CSS.ppt

09:45 → 10:00 Virtual Servers for Controls Applications

Speaker: Rene Kapeller (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides VirtualServers4ControlsApps.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:15 The PSI hardware inventory database

Speaker: Mr Alain Bertrand (PSI)

Slides i3.ppt

11:15 → 11:30 ITER tools and drivers

Speaker: Mr Franck Di Maio (ITER)

Slides EPICS_Collab_meeting_SLS_Oct2011_ITER_Tools.pptx

11:30 → 11:45 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

11:45 → 12:00 EDM Screen Display using Python

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

Slides Python_and_the_CLS_and_me.ppt

12:00 → 12:15 Portable Channel Access Server in Python

Speaker: Dr Xiaoqiang Wang (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Wang.pdf Wang.ppt

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:00 EPICS on the Altera NIOS2 FPGA Softcore Processor

Speaker: Mr Jeffrey Hill (LANL)

Slides Embedding_EPICS_into_NIOS2_Altera_FPGA_Softcore.pdf

14:00 → 14:15 iPhone Apps for EPICS

Speaker: Mr Matthias Clausen (DESY)

Slides iPhoneAppsForEpics-2011-10-06.ppt

14:15 → 14:30 Beam-synchronous DAQ at SwissFEL test injector

Speaker: Mr Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides EP_BSDAQ.ppt

14:30 → 14:45 Using COTS Hardware with EPICS Through LabVIEW - A Status Report

Speaker: Mr Thierry Debelle (National Instruments)

Slides Using_COTS_Hardware_with_EPICS.pptx

15:00 → 18:00 LabView and EPICS

Convener: Joseph Tagg (National Instruments)

15:00 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

15:00 → 18:00 Timing Workshop

Convener: Mr Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:00 Timing goes Express

Speaker: Mr Jukka Pietarinen (Micro Research Finland)

Slides MRF.PSI.EPICS2011.pdf

15:20 "mrfioc2" driver status

Speaker: Mr Michael Davidsaver (BNL)

Slides epics-201110.pdf

15:40 Challenges of Timing at high repetition

Speaker: Mr Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides TW_HighRep_EventGen.ppt

16:00 Break

16:15 Event generator sequencer programming

Speaker: Michael Davidsaver (BNL)

16:35 Timing requirements of SwissFEL plus open discussion

Speaker: Mr Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides TW_SwissFEL_req.ppt

18:30 → 23:00 Dinner

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

Friday 7 October

09:00 → 09:30 Introducton to EPICS Version 4 and its use use at BNL

Speaker: Mr Leo Dalesio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides V4EPICS201109EPICSMtg.pptx

09:30 → 09:50 pvAccess, pvData, pvIoc, pvService overview and status

Speaker: Mr Marty Kraimer (None)

Slides pvDataEtc.ppt

09:50 → 10:10 Interoperation with EPICS V3

Speaker: Mr Marty Kraimer (None)

10:10 → 10:30 EPICS V4 Discussions and Feedback

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:20 EPICS V4 Normative Data Types

Speaker: Mr Leo Dalesio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides V4EPICSNormative_types.pptx

11:20 → 11:40 pvManager cookbook

Speaker: Ralph Lange (BESSY II)

Movie PVManager.avi

Slides 20111012_-_PVManager.pptx

11:40 → 12:00 EPICS V4 Services

Speaker: Mr Greg White (SLAC)

Slides EV4Services.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 EPICS V4 roadmap and charter

Speaker: Mr Greg White (SLAC)

Slides EPICSv4roadmap.pdf

12:20 → 12:30 Goodbye

Speaker: Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Goodbye.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch