Stephanie Allison

SLC-Aware IOC saa@slac.stanford.edu

April 5, 2005

Proposal

Examples

Requirements

Plans

EPICS Record Naming ConventionLCLS Collaboration, April 5, 2005

Stephanie Allison

SLC-Aware IOC saa@slac.stanford.edu

April 5, 2005

Record Naming Proposal

PRIM:LOCA:UNIT:SECN

PRIM: Device/System Type (max 4 char) XCOR, STEP, WIRE, KLYS, VACV, VACG, LCW, IOC, PNET, …

LOCA: Location (4 char) LA21, LB21, XE00, XN02, XT49, …

UNIT: Device/System “serial” integer number unique for specific PRIM and LOCA (4 char max, 3 preferred)

1, 203, …

SECN: Device/System Attribute (4 char max for SLC IOC, 12 char max for non-SLC IOC)

BDES, IACT, STAT, STATE, STATUS, V, VACM, X, XRMS, …

Stephanie Allison

SLC-Aware IOC saa@slac.stanford.edu

April 5, 2005

XCOR:LA21:202:BACT

BPMS:LB21:201:Z

DT:XE00:1:V

VACV:XN01:99:STATE

MPS:LS00:1:RESET

Record Name Examples

Stephanie Allison

SLC-Aware IOC saa@slac.stanford.edu

April 5, 2005

Usage by existing SLC 3.13 CA clientsEasier translation from SLC name to EPICS name by SLC-Aware IOCFamiliar to SLAC communityNo collision with SLC CA serverField naming requirements? Support 3.13 so must be <= 4 characters and all upper-case.Other? RDB requirements?

Record Naming Requirements

Stephanie Allison

SLC-Aware IOC saa@slac.stanford.edu

April 5, 2005

Create Excel spreadsheet in shared area

Add new PRIMs, LOCAs, and SECNs to spreadsheet during development

List SECNs per PRIM

Probably affects RDB design

What else?

Record Naming Plans