Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Tim Mooney) · Thu, 12 Feb 1998 03:37:13 -0600

re...

> Has anyone adapted either of these records (or developed
> a new one) for use with the Oregon Micro Systems VME44-4E 
> motor controller?

I think both records support this board, but I haven't looked
at the steppermotor record recently.  The motor record's support
is available in the "Custom EPICS related software" section
of the EPICS Software Distribution.  Unfortunately, the most
recent version is buried among lots of unrelated stuff in the file

http://www.aps.anl.gov/xfd/SoftDist/swBCDA/xfdApp_R3.13.0.beta7_unbuilt.tar.gz

> After reviewing the code for the motor record I discovered
> that several changes would be required to adequately support
> the use of encoders.

If you have a list of those changes handy, it'd be nice to see it.
I'm not making any promises in advance; we have a pretty long list of
requested changes to the record--some encoder related--that nobody has
had time to work on yet.  Still, one list is probably better than two.

Tim Mooney

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System