A Turing-Influenced Sub-System for Instrument Control

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It is often natural to think of instrument control systems as `state machines' that respond to external events by moving between a set of well-defined states. This paper describes a general-purpose sub-system driven by state table definitions read from text files. Because the overall logic of the program is embodied in a text table, rather than in procedural code, it is easy to see exactly how the program will respond, and --- importantly --- it is possible to verify that the response of the program to a given event has been considered for all the possible states of the program. By adding arithmetic expressions and conditional tests to the `language' used to define the state table, something with a passing resemblance to a Turing machine is created. The flexibility of the system is illustrated here by an example state table that implements a prime number generator. The object-oriented design of the basic state table code makes it easy to define new operations that can appear in the state table `language', and so meet the needs of different instruments.

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