Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:33:27 -0600

Hi,

> What's the hardware requirements for Newport MM4000/3000 to 
> work under motor record?  Currently we have mm3000/4000 work with
SPEC/gpib (pci 
> card under linux).  We'd like to have a VME gpib or serial 
> card and put MM4000/3000 in motor record.  
> 
> My question is: What kind of VME gpib/serial card should I 
> get?  We have vxWorks 5.3 (BSP mvme-2304, ppc604) and I was able to
built 
> epics3.13.9 on it (using the Linux cross compiler from sns).

Under EPICS 3.14.4 it works with mpfSerial.  mpfSerial talks to Unix,
Linux and vxWorks serial ports.  On vxWorks it works with both the
serial ports on the CPU card, and with the SBS IP-Octal, through Andrew
Johnson's ipac module.  I have tested the MM4000 under both vxWorks and
Linux on 3.14.4.

Note that there is currently no support for the SBS IP-488 module under
3.14, because support has been removed from MPF, and support is not yet
provided under Marty Kraimer's asynDriver
(http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft/asynDriver/ )

Mark Rivers

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System