Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On Dienstag, 30. September 2008, Silver wrote:
>   I want to write a driver for one of our serial devices, so I read "How
> to create EPICS device support for a simple serial or GPIB device".
> (http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft/asyn/R4-9/HowToDoSerial/tutori
>al.html)

I strongly recommend using StreamDevice 
(epics.web.psi.ch/software/streamdevice/) for new GPIB (or VXI-11) device 
supports. It is a lot simpler to configure, no need to write C code, just a 
straight-forward protocol file that you load from the startup file.

Cheers
Ben

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