Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:55:23 -0600

Dear Robert,

> I have a few questions about how EPICS handles GPIB devices.  My goal is
> to understand how to send GPIB commands to devices.  I am running EPICS
> version R3.12-LBL.1, vxWorks version 5.3, and my GPIB controller board is
> a National Instruments National GPIB 1014-DP.

You might be interested to know about the "Generic GPIB record" which I wrote.
This record has fields for all of the GPIB communication parameters (address,
output and input fields, etc.) so you can configure communication at run-time
(e.g. from a client) rather than having to configure everything at build time.
 It is very useful for establishing initial communication, testing your
 device, etc.

Cheers,
Mark Rivers

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System