NSLS2 is preparing to migrate from the old eclipse based CS-Studio to the latest version, Phoebus. We have started the migration on 3 of our beamlines. In this talk I hope to share the important findings of our migration process so far and how we intend to proceed with moving the rest of the beamlines and the accelerator over to Phoebus.
This talk will cover the control system upgrades necessary to support the APS upgrade project (APS-U)reduce currently in progress to increase the light source brightness. The upgrade involves replacing most components in the storage ring to implement a multi-bend achromat Lattice.
An update on the latest developments in the EPICS tools and EPICS middle layer services. EPICS tools include applications like CS-Studio and Phoebus which provide a GUI for the EPICS control system and various EPICS services. The middle layer services include services which provide additional functionality on top of EPICS like Alarm consolidation and management, logging, archiving, etc...
Two new high level control tools have been developed at the Advanced Light Source which have been made available for the community to use and collaborate on. The first tool, phoebusgen, is a Python module which allows for the programmatic creation of CS Studio Phoebus XML. The tool allows for quick screen development and is especially useful for engineering panels which contain many widgets in...
Since the last reports from ESS in collaboration meetings, a lot has happened. The buildings have been completed, the subsystem installations have progressed a lot and first sections of the accelerator have been commissioned. We have also made progress in the introduction of EPICS 7 and in particular comprehensive use of pvAccess. The talk will show an overview of the facility status and...
