Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (S. Joshua Stein) · Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:51:24 -0600

> Wonder if there is a book market for someone to write "EPICS for Idiots"?
> 

"EPICS for Dummies" - right in series with all those other "Dummy" books.
I'd buy a copy!

Seriously tho-

  We've had some interesting problems with the NI-1014 GPIB board talking to
  some Hewlett Packard instruments - specifically some of their 'scopes. I spent
  a good week with a GPIB logic analyzer watching transactions between the
  NI-1014 board and an HP54615B oscilliscope - it seemed that ocasionally the
  GPIB board would not honor an assertion of one of the handshaking lines 
  from the 'scope (I believe it was NRFD) causing all sorts of bad things
  (garbled messages, locking up the scope, etc).

  The solution (after talking many times to many engineers at HP and NI) was
  to use a different controller. I switched to a greenspring IP running on
  a 162 (with Hideos - see how I tied that in?) and everything has worked great
  since.

  Frank Lenkszus, I believe, can report similar results.

  <josh>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System