Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ron Sluiter <[email protected]> · Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:16:16 -0500

Ron Sluiter wrote:
> I don't know the AB ControlLogix 5561, but you will have to make sure
> that it is not using A16 memory from 0xFBFF F000 -> 0xFBFF F100.
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Correction; I should have said "you will have to make sure that it is
not using A16 memory from 0xF000 -> 0xFFFF.


>> Dear all,
>> For some reasons, I want to combine the source codes of AB
>> ControlLogix with the ones of motorR-6-2-2 in one VME/MVME5500.
>> The hardware environments are:
>> VME/MVME5500
>> MAXv-8000
>> AB ControlLogix 5561
>> The software environments are:
>> Tornado2.2/VxWorks5.5.1
>> EPICS base 3.14.8.2
>> ether_ip.tgz (from SNS:EtherIP link)
>> motorR6-2-2.tar.gz
>> I have tested with the following:
>> 1. If IOC runs ether_ip or motorR6-2-2 individually, everything works OK.
>> 2. After combining these two kinds of source codes together, there are
>> some strange things happened:
>> 1) Usually MAXv-8000 can be initialized normally, but there are some
>> problems with PLC. All PVs exists in IOC, but the displayed values on
>> EDM/OPI are zeros.
>> 2) Occasully I made a mistake: the address of MAXv-8000 is set to
>> 0xE000, but I use "MAXvSetup(1,16,0xF000,180,6,10) in st.cmd. So
>> MAXv-8000 can't be initialized, but this time the EPICS system of PLC
>> works OK.
>> I am not sure if there is something conflict with these two source
>> codes. Any suggestion and idea are welcomed.
>> Thanks&Best Regards,
>> Lifang
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System