Device servers

• Philosophy : “an open control system capable of integrating everything”

• Definition : “a wrapper technology which provides a unified (flat) interface to all control objects”

• Communication can be synchronous, asynchronous or events

• Exists in 2 flavours TACO (rpc) + TANGO (CORBA)

• Runs on all our platforms

• Used to wrap analysis programs

• Why not EPICS ?

• • EPICS is a PLC-like technology which does not solve all problems
  • Not adapted for wrapping black boxes or turnkey systems
  • Prefer cdev to EPICS