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"Rogind, Debbie" <[email protected]> · Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:24:09 -0700

Hi Steve,

You may want to contact Richard Dabney ([email protected]) who wrote support for the Joerger Model VWG 100MHz, 12 bit VME aribitrary waveform generator.

Debbie Rogind
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, MS-46 
2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
Phone: 650.926.5183

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Hartman [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:21 PM
> To: EPICS tech-talk
> Subject: EPICS waveform output record
> 
> I am writing support for an arbitrary waveform generator 
> (Joerger Model VDACM 8 channel, 16-bit, 100kHz, waveform 
> generator with 32k memory per channel).
> 
> Is there an EPICS record which is appropriate for such a 
> device? The aao record seems like a possibility, but a search 
> of tech-talk archives from
> 1996 and 2000 revealed a number of problems with this record 
> which don't appear to have been incorporated into later 
> releases (looking at aaoRecord.c from R3.13.10).
> 
> The waveformRecord is close, but is designed for readback, 
> not output like I need for this device. The gensub record may 
> be a way to deal with it, if necessary.
> 
> Is anyone using a similar device, and if so, what record are 
> you using?
> Also, any suggestions on user interface for loading and 
> modifying waveforms?
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Steve Hartman
> [email protected] || 919-660-2650
> Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory
> 

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