Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Kate Feng <[email protected]> · Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:08:40 -0400

Mark Rivers wrote:

> Hi Dorothea,
>
> > may I ask once again for drivers: Is someone using  carrier boards on
> > VME-systems running RTEMS together with  A/D- and D/A-converter
> > Industry Packs?
> > We  would like to install Industry Packs with 16bit A/D and D/A
> > converters respectively with a throuput of >=100kHz. We shortlist the
> > IP235 from Acromag, A/Dconverter and the IP-ADC-8401 from Hytec.
>
> I have a driver for the Acromag IP330 A/D, which is 16-bits.  I also
> have a driver for the Systran DAC-128V D/A, which is 12 bits.  Both of
> these are Industry Pack devices.  The drivers have been extensively
> rewritten in the last few weeks to use with the new "asyn" package that
> Marty Kraimer mentioned.
>
> The required packages are "IPAC", "asyn", and my drivers.  IPAC is
> maintained by Andrew Johnson.  I don't know if it has been tested under
> RTEMS.  I doubt if anyone is using my drivers under RTEMS yet, and I
> would guess that there will be a small amount of work required to get it
> all running on RTEMS.

I came across  some of 3.14.x compatible drivers lately, and  found most
of them  RTEMS ready (e.g. using epicsThreadSleep() instead of
taskDelay()).   I recalled  SPEAR3/SLAC had some  IPAC and  Hytec drivers
running  on RTEMS.   Maybe Stephanie  Allison knows where  is the
web download site.

Cheers,
Kate

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System