Physics – Accelerator Physics
Scientific paper
2001-11-08
eConf C011127 (2001) THAP009
Physics
Accelerator Physics
Scientific paper
With the advent of readily available wireless communications and small hand-held computers, commonly known as personal digital assistants (PDAs), it is interesting to consider using these portable devices to access a control system. We have successfully ported the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) to Windows CE 3.0 (WCE) for the Pocket PC (PPC), and this paper describes the issues involved. The PPC was chosen because the WCE application programming interface (API) for the PPC is a subset of the Win32 API, which EPICS already supports, and because PPC devices tend to have more memory than other PDAs. PDAs provide several ways to connect to a network, using wired or wireless Compact Flash or PCMCIA Ethernet cards and modems. It is the recent advent of readily available wireless networks that makes using the portable PDA interesting. The status and issues surrounding the various kinds of wireless systems available are presented.
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