EPICS Collaboration Meeting in October 2019

Session

EPICS Developements

5 Oct 2019, 09:10

Conveners

EPICS Developements

• Richard Farnsworth (NSLS-II)
• Anton Derbenev (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

21. Epics 7

Andrew Johnson (Argonne National Laboratory)

05/10/2019, 09:10

Plenary talk

An introduction to EPICS 7 and a report on the latest developments in the EPICS 7 core packages.

4. Summary of the first EPICS Documentathon

Timo Korhonen (European Spallation Source ERIC)

05/10/2019, 09:30

Plenary talk

The first ever EPICS Documentathon was held at ESS in September of this year. A group of 12 people worked on a number of topics to develop, update and improve the EPICS documentation. A new infrastructure for writing and publishing EPICS documentation was put in place. Also the epics-controls website navigation was restructured, to make it easier to use and to integrate with other...

11. CI for Code and Documentation

Ralph Lange (ITER Organization)

05/10/2019, 09:50

Lightning Talk

At the recent Documentathon, a system to create and host EPICS documentation has been added to the services that EPICS uses for Continuous Integration (CI).
The talk presents the status of the EPICS CI systems for code and documentation, and how these systems can be used for other EPICS modules, e.g. Record, Device and Driver Support modules.

28. Epics Developers meeting Report

Ralph Lange (ITER Organization)

05/10/2019, 09:55

A report on the discussions and developments from the EPICS core developers meeting.

10. A User's Guide for EPICS Lua–Based Data Processing Subscription Update Filters

Jeffrey Hill (LANL)

05/10/2019, 10:05

Plenary talk

Multiple previous talks described our embedding of the Lua interpreter in
EPICS base for a replacement shell, for a Lua scripting record, and for
dynamically filtering and re-configuring subscription update payloads
within the Channel Access protocol.

This update talk will provide a end user's tutorial for these production
system ready enhancements.

25. Moving EPICS Base to Modern C++

Martin Konrad (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

05/10/2019, 10:25

Plenary talk

During the last decade C++ has evolved rapidly providing new language features, better standard-library facilities and more sophisticated compilers. This presentation provides an overview of these new features and motivates why we might want to leverage them for EPICS.