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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.