ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
An international collaboration of software developers has been working for several years to advance the state of the art of control systems and has produced software and development methods that are directly applicable to synchrotron radiation (SR) instrumentation. The software is collectively entitled EPICS and is essentially an extensible tool kit for implementing distributed control systems. The EPICS collaboration now includes developers representing many of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) beamlines, as well as developers from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, the Advanced Light Source, and the Gemini and Keck telescopes. As part of this collaboration, we have developed software tools for controlling and acquiring data from SR beamlines and combined them with tools developed by others to support laboratories and experiments at the APS and other SR facilities. Applications of EPICS-based software in SR instrumentation will be described, some consequences of collaborative development will be discussed, and the intended impact of this software on the science conducted at SR facilities will be discussed. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1147328
