October 9-13, 2006
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We are pleased to announce the 13th Annual Tcl/Tk conference (Tcl'2006), sponsored by Noumena Corporation , Digital Smarties , Eolas Technologies and ActiveState .
Experiments at the National Superconducing Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State Univeristy (NSCL/MSU) require the ability to access a wide variety of electronics housed in VME bus backplanes. While the main data flow of an experiment requires software that is highly tuned for performance, a number of slow control applications are often running at the same time. This paper will describe Vme a very small Tcl extension that provides access to the VME backplane.
A short tutorial on the VME bus will be presented. The design goals of the extension are described. The VME interface hardware on which it has been implemented are also described. I will survey some of the applications that have been implemented in pure Tcl on top of this extension by myself and experimenters at the NSCL/MSU.
| Cyndy Lilagan | Eolas Technologies | Facilities Coordination |
| Clif Flynt | Noumena Corp | General Chair |
| Steve Redler IV | SR Technology | Program Chair |
| Steve Landers | Digital Smarties | Program Co-chair |
| Kevin Kenny | GE Global Research Center | |
| Jeffrey Hobbs | ActiveState Corp | |
| Andreas Kupries | ActiveState Corp | |
| Ron Fox | NSCL Michigan State University | |
| Donal Fellows | University of Manchester | |
| Larry Virden | Tcl FAQ Maintainer | |
| Mike Doyle | Eolas Technologies | |
| Gerald Lester | HMS Software |