EPICS

EPICS: stepper

Module Owner: Marty Kraimer

NOTICE: This is an obsolete product. Please use motor support instead

This page is the home of stepper motor support. This consists of the following components : 
devSmCompumotor1830.c
devSmOms6Axis.c
drvCompuSm.c
drvOms.c
drvOms.h
steppermotor.h
steppermotorRecord.c
steppermotorRecord.dbd
These components previously resided in epics/base.  The first unbundled release is arbitrarily being called R1-1. Please note that Joe Sullivan is reaponsible for motor support that is a sucessor to the stepper support.

Please email any comments and bug reports to _Marty Kraimer_ who is responsible for coordinating development and releases.
 

Hardware Supported

The module can drive the following types of hardware:

Where to Find it

You can download the software by anonymous ftp  from the links in the table below:
 
 
Module Version EPICS Release Filename Documentation Release Notes
R1-1 3.14   stepper1-1.tar.gz None  None

Additional Documentation

The stepper motor support is documented in the Record Referance Manual located at Los Alamos. Go to the following site and look for the Reference Manual.

Installation and Building

After obtaining a copy of the distribution, it must be installed and built for use at your site. These steps only need to be performed once for the site (unless versions of the module running under different releases of EPICS and/or the other required modules are needed).
  1. Create an installation directory for the module, usually this will end with
    2. /support/stepper/X-Y
    where X-Y is the release number
  2. Unpacking the distribution tar file produces a <supporttop> directory named after the release number.
  3. Edit the config/RELEASE file and set the paths to your installation of EPICS base and to your version of ipac.
  4. Run gnumake in the top level directory and check for any compilation errors.
Marty Kraimer