EPICS

EPICS: bitBus

This page is the home of the EPICS bitbus drvier support. This consists of the following components:

devBBInteract.c
devBUG.dbd
devBitbusStats.dbd
devIObug.c
drvBB232.c
drvBB232.cSAVE
drvBB232.h
drvBitBus.c
drvBitBus.h
drvBitBusErr.h
drvBitBusInterface.h
drvMsg.c
drvMsg.h
drvRs232.h

Several of these components previously resided in epics/base. The first unbundled release was R1-1.

Hardware Supported

The module can drive the following types of hardware:

Where to Find it

You can download the software from the links in the table below:

Module Version EPICS Release Filename Documentation Release Notes
R1-5 3.14.0alpha2 bitBus1-5.tar.gz bitbus.html README
R1-4 3.13.2 bitBus1-4.tar.gz bitbus.html None

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
    /support/bitBus/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.

In Use

This software was developed by John Winans, who is no longer a member of the EPICS community. It is used at APS, probably uniquely.