Acronyms/Glossary

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Acronym List

API Application Programming Interface

CA Channel Access

CDEV Control DEVice

EPICS Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

GDD Generalized Device Descriptor

IOC Input/Output Controller

KTL Keck Task Library

OSI Operating System Independent

PV Process Variable

SNC State Notation Compiler

SNL State Notation Language

STD State Transition Diagram

UML Unified Modeling Language

Glossary

Channel Access EPICS software that supports network independent access to IOC databases.

Control DEVice API (originating at Jefferson Lab) that provide message system independent means of interacting with an underlying control system.

Input/Output Controller The VME/VXI based chassis containing a real-time processor, various I/O modules, and VME modules that provide assess to other I/O buses such as GPIB.