Recent developments and future plans for EPICS Base from the EPICS Core Developer's Group.
The operation of ITER is expected to happen not only directly in the ITER control room, but also to benefit from human capital from around the globe. Each ITER participating country could create a remote participation room and follow the progress of experiments in relatively real time. Scientists from all over the world can collaborate on experiments at the same time as they are performed....
We constructed the distributed TDC system at SuperKEKB based on the White Rabbit timing system. The individual slave node of White Rabbit works as the TDC with an accuracy of 8ns. And their timestamps are synchronized at the sub-nanosecond level. This TDC node consists of the PCIexpress-type White Rabbit board that is operated on the commercial PC. We developed the EPICS device support that...
Implementing EPICS device support for a specific device can be tricky; implementing generic device support that can integrate different kinds of devices sharing a common interface is trickier still. Yet such a driver can save a lot of time down the road. A well-known example is the Modbus EPICS module: the same support module can be used to integrate any device that speaks the Modbus protocol....
