Spring 2015 EPICS Collaboration Meeting

From VME/RTEMS to Industrial PC/LinuxRT: A Migration Story

19 May 2015, 14:15

15m

1200 Molecular Plant Science Building, Michigan State University

15 minute contribution Low-level Controls

Speaker

Mitch D'Ewart (SLAC)

Description

Until recently VME RTEMS-based IOCs have been the platform of choice for control systems at SLAC. Cost and hardware availability make industrial PCs running Linux an attractive option for EPICS based IOCs. The CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch has been used to significantly improve the real-time performance of Linux. We will discuss real-time performance issues and migration experience for LinuxRT based EPICS IOCs.

Presentation materials

Slides

VME_RTEMS_to_Industrial_PC_LinuxRT.pptx