EPICS class

[mooney@oxygen.aps1.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)]

We plan to offer an EPICS class primarily intended for
beamline-controls applications during the entire week of April 18.  The
Accelerator Controls Group and the Beamline Controls Group are
collaborating in the planning of this course, and we'd like to have
your input on content, emphasis, and schedule--particularly those of
you who have already taken an EPICS class.

Althought we strongly recommend the week-long schedule with 20 hours of
classes interspersed with 20 hours of hands-on time to work on
assignments, it is possible to squeeze all of the classes into three
days, leaving as an option two additional days for hands-on work.

To sign up for the EPICS class, please contact Susan Barr:
barr@anlaps.aps.anl.gov
(708) 252-5981

To start the discussion on course content, a schedule from last Fall's
class is reproduced below.  Please address comments and advice to the
beamline_controls list (beamline_controls@aps.anl.gov) or to me.

Tim Mooney
mooney@oxygen.aps1.anl.gov


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		LAST FALL's EPICS-CLASS SCHEDULE
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Monday, November 8, 1993

1)  9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m                                  Marty Kraimer
	EPICS Overview - open to everyone

2)  10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.                                Ned Arnold
	Database Operations: scanning, INPUT, OUTPUT, FWLINK, SDIS, ...
	    inspect two small example databases
                                           
3)  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.                                  Fred Vong
	Unix, VxWorks, Database Configuration Tool (DCT)
	instructor loads first example database from Database Operations
	students load second example database from Database Operations

4)  3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.                              Marty Kraimer
	Record Reference Manual

5)  3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.                              Nick Karonis
	Hand out Assignment 1 - Chasing Lights (non-OPI)

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Tuesday, November 9, 1993

6)  9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.                                 Marty Kraimer
	Lecture on big database problems

7)  2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.                                 Mark Anderson
	MEDM 

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Wednesday, November 10, 1993

8)  10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.                                Nick Karonis
	Discuss solution to Assignment 1

9)  11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.                                Nick Karonis
	Hand out Assignment 2 - Chasing Lights (OPI)

10) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.                                  Marty Kraimer
	Application Developers Guide lecture 

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Thursday, November 11, 1993

11) 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.                                 Marty Kraimer
	Application Developers Guide lecture 

12) 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.                                  Nick Karonis
	Discuss solution to Assignment 2

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Friday, November 12, 1993

13) 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.                             John Winans
	GPIB support lecture 

14) 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.                              Marty Kraimer
	Channel Access lecture 

15) 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.				Tim Mooney
	EPICS Super and Rexx in Beamline Software

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