Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Heron, M (Mark) " <[email protected]> · Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:25:06 -0000

Hello Timo,

We also have a requirement for VME64x transition board extender.
Particularly as we have a custom transition board as a Machine Protection
Module. ie the protection logic is on the transition board so is separate
from, and only monitored by the Hytec 8001.

Could you let techtalk and me know if you do or don't find one. If they're
not available I'm happy to initiate a development.

Best Regards.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Korhonen Timo
To: [email protected]
Sent: 14/01/2004 15:58
Subject: Re: Choice of Power PC VME cards

Hi,

we at SLS are slowly moving to the MVME5100 series. We have already 
bought some cards but have not yet put any into operation (we are 
currently using mvme230x cards, which we do not intend to replace as
long as they work.)

An almost unrelated question: has anybody seen or heard of an extender
card for VME64x transition modules? We have extenders for the main cards
and were looking something similar to help in debugging transition
modules but have not found anything yet. Any hints would be appreciated.

Timo Korhonen

Singleton, SJ (Steve) wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> The control system for the Diamond Light Source is to be based on
VME-based
> IOCs running EPICS under VxWorks on PowerPC processors.  Until now we
have
> been using MVME2304 boards for prototyping and development, but now we
are
> about to place an order for a large number of processor boards for the
full
> system.  We have received tenders offering the MVME5500 and MVME5100
series
> boards; we would be pleased to know whether anyone else is currently
using,
> or intending to use EPICS on these boards, and if so, what stage they
are at
> and what their experiences with them so far have been.
> 
> I understand also that to use these boards we will need to change our
> release of Tornado from 2.0.2, which we are currently using, to 2.2 or
2.2.1
> and would be pleased to know other people's experiences with Epics on
> Tornado 2.2 or 2.2.1.
> 
> Thanks
> Steve Singleton
>  

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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