Hi all, I'd like to be able to create control loops in EtherLab, to run in real time, but have the process data they monitor/create piped asynchronously to an EPICS server. I'd also like, if possible, to set flags with EPICS to start/stop control loops in EtherLab.
I've seen the Diamond Light Source work on getting EPICS to talk to EtherCAT hardware using EtherCAT Master (e.g. http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/icalepcs2011/papers/wemau004.pdf). While this is nice, it seems to take control of the interface to the EtherCAT hardware away from EtherLab real time applications. With the Diamond interface it seems like you can't run EtherLab models alongside their scanner. It seems like there aren't any other pre-existing solutions to this, so I'm looking in to how this can be done with my own code. I'm not sure where to begin looking, but pdserv looks promising. Before I begin, can anyone think of a reason why this might *not* be possible, and if it would be possible, does anyone have advice for where to start looking? Many thanks, Sean Leavey _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
