The insertion device control program (IDCP)

IDCP is the software that runs on the IOC, it is an abbreviation for “Insertion Device Control Program”.

The following pages describe IDCP in more detail:

• How to build and install IDCP
  • Prepare your $HOME/.hgrc file
  • Create a directory where to build the application
  • Check out IDCP repository only (not recommended)
  • Check out IDCP repository with MQ Patches (recommended)
  • Configure IDCP
  • Sumo
  • Build IDCP
  • Distribute a version
  • Activate a version
• Edit configuration files in an installed version
  • Step One, make a backup
  • Step Two, edit the files
  • Step Three, activate the changes on the IOC
  • Complete example
• IDCP User Interface
  • Preface
  • Naming conventions for process variables (“PVs”)
  • Basic components of the undulator
  • Normal operation
  • List of Process variables
  • Panels
  • Advanced concepts
• IDCP Status and Error Codes
  • Main panel
  • UniDrive undulators, DIAG Panel
  • MOCON undulators, MOCON Panel
• CAN Object ID conventions at the HZB
  • Preface
  • Two ways to construct COBs
  • Node channel scheme
  • Node subobject scheme
• The Monochromator CAN bus interface specification
  • Preface
  • Node-ID
  • CONFMESSAGE
  • PARAMETER
  • FASTMESSAGE
• IDCP correction coil control (ACS)
  • Introduction
  • Tables
  • The configuration file
  • Calculated axle definition
  • Changing the configuration
• The idcp-dist-info tool
  • Original documentation
  • Examples
  • Report ordered by version names
  • Report with additional information for a software version
  • Report on version lifetimes
  • Report IOC boot times
• Change IDCP versions used by IOCs (rsync-dist)
  • Introduction
  • Using idcp-dist-info to generate reports
  • Checking out the source with idcp-get-source
  • how to activate a version
• IDCP Parameters (StructuredData)
  • The software repository
  • Using iddb to query the data
  • Using an editor to view the data
  • Using SDview to query the data
  • Using SDpyshell to query the data
  • Query the data with xmlrpc
• List of IOC Bootparameters
  • List of IOCs
  • List of bootparameters: