CA Lab SoftIOC

This is a VI for creating new EPICS variables and run them in a Soft IOC.
(On Linux, the app screen is required to run SoftIOC in the background).

INPUT:

• PV set
  •  Cluster-array of names, data types and field definitions to create a new EPICS PV
• Soft IOC configuration file
  • Target of configuration (db-file)
• path to binaries of EPICS base
  
  • Windows: C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW\user.lib\caLab\Lib\
  • Linux: /usr/local/epics/bin/linux-x86_64/
• error in (no error)

OUTPUT:

• Result
  • Initial output of Soft IOC shell (checkpoint of errors)
• Command Line
  • Command string: How the Soft IOC shell was called
• IOC started
  • TRUE: Soft IOC runs and is ok
  • FALSE: Soft IOC is in trouble (check "result")
• error out
  • Global I/O error

All created EPICS variables will be destroyed when CaLabSoftIOC stops.

Configuration Set

Cluster array of configurations of all EPICS variables.

 

PV Name

• Name of new EPICS variable (Please check whether this name is unique in your network!!! CaLabGet is a good tool to do that.)

Description

• User defined description of PV

Data type

• EPICS data type (read more)

Number of elements (waveform only)

• Use for data type "waveform" only!
• Size of array (elements)

Element size (waveform only)

• Use for data type "waveform" only!
• Data type of array elements

Array of field definitions

• Field-value-set to define properties of EPICS variable
• read more