Integrating Newer Technology Software Systems into the SLAC Legacy Control System - Two Case Histories and New CMLOG Developments

TL;DR

This paper discusses integrating modern software systems into SLAC's legacy control system through two case histories and new developments in CMLOG, aiming to improve processing and user tools.

Contribution

It introduces two new software products that enhance legacy control systems with modern processing capabilities and tools, demonstrated through case histories.

Findings

Successful integration of new software into legacy systems

Improved processing offload from aging hardware

Enhanced software tools for user community

Abstract

It has been the goal of SLAC Controls Software to offload processing from the aging Alpha/VMS based control system onto machines that are more widely accepted and used. An additional goal has been to provide more modern software tools to our user community. This paper presents two software products which satisfy those goals.