Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Allison, Stephanie" <[email protected]> · Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:20:04 -0700

Hello 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?

At SSRL/SPEAR, we are using Andrew Johnson's IPAC support version 2.7a converted to OSI/RTEMS on base 3.14.6.  I have sent the cvs differences to Andrew for his consideration and can send them to you too - let me know.

We are using the Acromag AVME9670 IP carrier board and the following IP modules:
TEWS TIP810 CANbus (part of the IPAC 2.7a package)
Acromag IP440 Digital Input
Acromag IP445 Digital Output
Acromag IP470 Digital I/O

For the IP440 and 445, we use the XYCOM 2440 and 2445 support from Andy Foster converted to 3.14.6/OSI/RTEMS.  I have sent the changes back to Andy - the modified source is also here:
ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/groups/controls/soft/epics/xycomIpac.tar.gz
The IP470 software was developed in-house (very similar to the IP445) and is here:
ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/groups/controls/soft/epics/acromagIpac.tar.gz

The support assumes that you have developed a base/src/libCom/osi/os/RTEMS/devLibOSD.c for your target.  The devLibOSD.c that is delivered with base 3.14.6 only supports PPC mpc750.  There's been discussion offline of tech-talk about the best way to have a more generic RTEMS devLib but I don't think that discussion came to any conclusion.

Till Straumann also has Hytec 8002 carrier and Hytec 8401 IP module software (originally from SLS?) converted to 3.14.1/RTEMS but I don't know the status of that software.  It's not used in production here.  I can send you what we have but Till should say something about its pedigree.

Stephanie Allison

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System