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Here's the roadmap regarding the Phar Lap end of life on the PXI controllers.</div>
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<a href="https://www.ni.com/content/dam/web/pdfs/phar-lap-rt-eol-roadmap.pdf" id="LPlnk762546">https://www.ni.com/content/dam/web/pdfs/phar-lap-rt-eol-roadmap.pdf</a><br>
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The biggest issue is that they're removing hardware and software support from all the NI software and we can't stay at older versions of LabVIEW indefinitely.</div>
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Fortunately things have improved on the software front since the last time I looked at using Linux on the newest controller we have, it seems both EPICS and Ethernet/IP support has been added. I'll need to install the latest NI software to verify, but this
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I think we'll need to order a new controller as a spare even if we have to end up using the old OS as they're still available this year. In a quick search I can't seem to find the exact model that we have, but a similarly spec'd one is $8390 with a lead time
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Let's have a Hall D controls meeting on Thursday, April 28 at 10:00am. </p>
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I posted the preliminary agenda on the wiki page:</p>
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