EPICS Collaboration Meeting

Python Accelerator Middle Layer

8 Apr 2025, 14:55

5m

Pickavance Lecture Theatre/Visitor Center (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source)

Lightning Talk Backend or Services EPICS Plenary Session

Speaker

Martin Gaughran (Diamond Light Source)

Description

The accelerator community makes use of a suite of tools called the 'Matlab Middle Layer', or MML. This provides an accelerator-agnostic interface alongside a large number of high level applications, such as slow orbit feedback, beam-based alignment, and others. Originally developed over 20 years ago, accelerator physicists and other interested people have grouped together to develop a replacement system using Python. This is called the Python Accelerator Middle Layer (or PyAML) project.

This talk is a brief overview of the project's goals. We would also like to reach out to any people who are interested in joining the collaboration.