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Oleg Makarov1, Sergey Stepanov1
1Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave, Bldg.436D, Argonne, Illinois, 60439, U.S.A.
Abstract:
An embedded server layer of Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) for PowerPMAC motion controllers has been developed and deployed at two undulator beamlines of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Cancer Institute (GM/CA) Structural Biology Facility at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). This compact, open source solution makes the power and versatility of PowerPMAC motion controls directly accessible to distributed EPICS clients. At GM/CA the system controls about 200 servo and stepper motors - both encoded and unencoded - and multiple digital and analog I/O accessories. The server stack comprises two sublayers: a lower-level driver and database that communicates directly with PowerPMAC, and a facility-specific soft sublayer built on top. The paper describes installing EPICS on PowerPMAC, the implementation of both layers and client examples, including on-the-fly scanning.
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