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Korhonen Timo <[email protected]> · Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:50:10 +0200

Hi Dayle,
although the problem was solved with Ge, I summarize it here as other
people may have interest in this topic also.
The card was not recognized because it needs a special configuration
sequence.

The EVG/EVR series 200 cards have been implemented according to the
CR/CSR specification in VME64/VME64x standard (chapter 10 in the VME64x
ANSI standard.) That is, before the cards are visible in the normally

used access windows (A32,A24,A16,...) they have to be configured. This
configuration happens in a separate address space which is
geographically addressed (those who know PCI are familiar with the concept.)

There are no jumpers or address switches to be set but on the other hand
if the configuration is not done the cards are not visible in the normal
windows.

This would give many nice possibilities but unfortunately the concept is
poorly or not at all supported in vxWorks at least (one can of course
customize the BSP to have a window to the configuration address space.)
For the EVG/EVR 200-series we implemented a 'hack' where in the
eg/erConfigure the Tundra registers are saved, modified to give access
to the config address space, the card is configured and finally the
Tundra registers are restored to the original values. This is not the
best method but at least it works. Except for the problem that Ge had:
the mvme5100 BSP has a bug (or poor implementation) of sysBusToLocalAdrs

routine and the dev support needed another hack to circumvent this bug.
Would the CR/CSR concept be worth a short talk and a discussion in the
EPICS meeting?
best regards,
Timo

Dayle Kotturi wrote:

Hi Ge,
Three things I'd suggest (based on my experience with 100 series hardware):
1) make sure your EVG is properly "seated" in the crate. Even if LEDs are
on, I've found that board can be incorrectly seated. This happened with
64x VME crates.
2) ensure the top rotary dial is set to '2' and the lower rotary dial is
set to '0'
3) change your card number from '4' to '0' if you only have one EVG
Step (3) may not be necessary to get it working.
You need to get a '0' return code from EgConfigure before you can get
any further.
The same suggestions apply to EVR (rotaries at '1' and '8', change
card to '0'). For EVR only, check that jumpers are set to '5' as
is documented on the board itself.
Dayle Kotturi
LINAC Coherent Light Source
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Lei Ge wrote:
Hello,
I'm testing the event generator EVG200, but my IOC failed to probing the
event-generator board. Could somebody give me some suggestions? Thank you
very much.
---------------------------------------------------------
EgConfigure(4,0x2000)
value = -1 = 0xffffffff = prsrv_cast_client + 0xff0f7b3f
ErConfigure(6,0x1800,164,5)
value = -1 = 0xffffffff = prsrv_cast_client + 0xff0f7b3f
cd "/home21/home/leige/epicsApp/dbd"
value = 0 = 0x0
dbLoadDatabase("baseApp.dbd")
devApsEg: Failure probing for event generator... Card disabled
devApsEr: Failure probing for event receiver... Card disabled
value = 0 = 0x0
dbLoadDatabase("evgevr.dbd")
value = 0 = 0x0
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Best wishes,
Ge

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