SPEAR EPICS Record Naming Convention
last update: 09 Dec 2002
This page describes the SPEAR EPICS database record naming convention for
all records except those for the RF system which uses the
PEPII naming convention.
Record names have two parts:
Record Name = COMPONENT:Signal
Detail about each part is provided below. Record names will be no
longer than 28 characters. Record field names (ie, .VAL, .HIGH) are
defined in the Record Reference Manual
and cannot be changed by the application developer.
Example record names:
- 01G-COR1H:Curr1 -- current monitor 1 on horizontal corrector in first girder
- 03G-BPM2:X -- x position on second BPM in third girder
- 03G-BPM2:State -- validity of data from this BPM
- MS1-BD:CurrSetpt -- setpoint for bend magnet (MS1 is a magnet string)
- 116-VME1:Fan1Speed -- readback of fan 1 speed on first VME crate in Don East
- SPEAR:Xorbit -- array of storage ring x positions
- SPEAR:Energy -- calculated storage ring energy
COMPONENT
COMPONENT represents as closely as possible a hardware component as
described in the SPEAR3 configuration database (
Mechanical,
Electrical,
Controls). All non-numeric characters in COMPONENT are uppercase and
dashes "-"'s are used for separation. If a COMPONENT is not in the
configuration database because it is geographically distributed
(like a magnet string), a calculated quantity (like the ring energy), or
physically not in the ring (like a VME crate), then a sensible COMPONENT name
will be assigned and added to the configuration database.
Signal
Signal represents a "quantity" or measured attribute of the COMPONENT.
Upper and lower case characters are used in signal names for readability.
Special characters (ie, "_", "-", ":") are not used (or are at least
discouraged). Sometimes two or three parts are combined in Signal. The
first part indicates a sub-component (ie, Fan, Mgnt), if applicable.
The second part indicates the quantity (ie, Temp, Curr) if analog, or state
(ie, Reset, State) if digital. The third part provides a specific attribute
(ie, Setpt), if applicable. Usually each part is 6 characters or less.
Recommended names include:
Quantities:
- Ampl = Amplitude
- Count = Raw Count
- Curr = Current
- Energy
- Freq = Frequency
- Gain
- Offset
- Phase
- Power
- Speed
- State
- Temp = Temperature
- Time
- Vacuum
- Volt = Voltage
- X = Horizontal Position
- Xorbit = X Orbit (array of Xs)
- Y = Vertical Position
- Yorbit = Y Orbit (array of Ys)
Attribute:
- Avg = Average
- Hist = History Waveform
- Max = Maximum
- Min = Minimum
- Neg = Negative
- Pos = Positive
- Raw = Unconverted Data
- Rdbk = Readback
- Ref = Reference
- Ripple
- RMS = Root Mean Square
- Setpt = Setpoint
- Status
- State