Beamline Controls Workshop

[mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)]

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                    APS BEAMLINE CONTROLS WORKSHOP
                        Argonne National Lab
                          June 21-23, 1995

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The APS Experimental Facilities Division plans to host a three-day
workshop on Beamline Controls June 21-23, 1995, at Argonne National
Laboratory, Bldg. 432 (a lab/office module adjacent to the APS
experiment hall).  The focus of this workshop will be on software,
electronic hardware, and related standards intended for use in
controlling and acquiring data from synchrotron-radiation beamlines and
x-ray enclosures.  Although EPICS-related developments seem likely to
dominate the workshop, given the broad support the EPICS tool kit has
received among APS-affiliated developers, we do not intend for this to
be an EPICS-only workshop.

Please pass this notice on to anyone you know who is currently involved
in synchrotron-radiation software.  Nobody wants this workshop
restricted to those whose email addresses I'm able to hunt down.

If you plan to attend, please reply to Julie Wulf
(julie_wulf@qmgate.anl.gov) with both your email and USMail address, so
we can send future notices and a more formal announcement to you.

If you'd like to present, please also send me a description of what
you'd like to present, how much time it will require, and what medium
(talk, demonstration, poster, discussion) seems most appropriate.

Apologies to CHESS developers: I realize this workshop overlaps the
second day of your User's Meeting.  We tried unsuccessfully to work
around it.  If you indicate topics of special interest to you, we'll
schedule them late in the week.

The following program is tentative.  Suggestions and new topics are
still welcome.  If sufficient interest is expressed, informal evening
sessions on nitty-gritty (e.g., writing EPICS device support, building
an EPICS application environmen, etc.) are possible.

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				PROGRAM
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Wednesday, June 21
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	Applications
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	60	NSLS beamline controls and data acquisition
			Kate Feng-Berman (NSLS)
	30	EPICS support for DC-servo motors
			Tom Coleman (SBC-CAT)
	30	EPICS support for Highland Technology microstepper
			Joe Sullivan (APS)

	30	Customization of APS motor-transition-board hardware
			Kurt Goetze (APS)
	30	New StepPack hardware
			staff (APS)

	Equipment protection
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	30	Programmable Logic Controllers
			Jim Minich (APS)
	30	Allen Bradley SLC-500
			Mark Rivers (CARS-CAT)
	Discussion
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	60	Manual controls
			John Quintana (DND-CAT),
			Joe Sullivan, Dave Reid, Tim Mooney (APS)

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Thursday, June 22
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	Applications
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	60	Canberra AIM/MCA support under EPICS
			Mark Rivers (CARS-CAT)
	60	APS stdApp for beamline control and data acquisition
			Tim Mooney (APS)

	60	An integrated graphical user interface for synchrotron-beamline
		control and data collection
			Bob Sweet (BNL)

	Discussion
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	60	Data-file formats
			Jon Tischler (UNI-CAT)
			Bob Sweet (BNL)
	60	EXAFS data-acquisition software specifications
			Grant Bunker (BIO-CAT)

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Friday, June 23
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	Applications
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	30	End-user scripting tools
			Guy Jennings (BESSRC-CAT)
	30	Spec on EPICS
			Gerry Swislow
	30	IDL client software for EPICS
			Mark Rivers (CARS-CAT)
	30	Data catcher
			Ben-chin Cha (APS)

	30	tcl-dp based communication with ISA hardware
			John Quintana (DND-CAT)
	30	EPICS support for IndustryPack hardware
			Jim Kowalkowski (APS)
	30	Generic VME record for EPICS
			Mark Rivers (CARS-CAT)

	Discussion
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	60	Response to APS-proposed network hardware
			Dave Wallis (APS)
	60	EPICS on alternative platforms


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Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov)
Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition Group
Experimental Facilities Division
Advanced Photon Source