User:AndrewJohnson/V4 Requirements
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EPICS V4 Requirements
High Reliability
- Add records, record types etc. to a running system
- Checkpointing and IOC failover to a redundant system
Introspection of the CA namespace
- Channel name discovery
Improved CA Event Model
- Triggers
- Filters
- Data Rate Limit
Structured Data Types
- Remove arbitrary limits on string length, number of states, array dimensions etc.
- Structured fields, to support a higher level device view
- Atomic write/read of multiple fields in a record.
