Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Robert,

 

If you can’t find existing support then I would recommend streamDevice.  streamDevice is independent of the underlying transport mechanism (RS-232, GPIB, Ethernet).  It provides the device support for standard EPICS records, building the strings to send to the device and parsing the responses.  You don’t need to write any C code, just a protocol file.  The Agilent E8257D implements the “SCPI” protocol, which is a nice industry standard ASCII protocol for controlling devices.

 

Mark

 

 

 

 

Hello,

 

I was wondering if anyone had device drivers directly for the Agilent E8257D microwave signal generator?

 

If drivers do not exist directly then I figure that you can connect it via GPIB to a LAN/GPIB gateway (Agilent E5810) and that this gateway has EPICS device drivers that include asynDriver and StreamDevice. My questions, if this is the route we have to go, is as follows:

 

-          Does anyone have support written for the 8257D using the gateway?

-          Would StreamDevice be needed? I want to say no because the 8257 is not RS-232 but I may be wrong in how I look at the architecture of everything

 

Any help from the community is helpful and I want to thank everyone in advance!

 

Robert Gaul III

Student Assistant

NSLS II