Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:57:19 -0600

Hi Angus,

On Monday 29 November 2010 16:17:15 Angus Gratton wrote:
>
> Btw, at the moment, all the devices I'm using are register-based with
> custom asynPortDrivers. So I can't make stubs via TCP or other
> protocols, unfortunately. 

That statement immediately suggests to me that the best place for a simulator 
would be to write a generic port driver with a scripted back-end that would 
allow you to emulate all of your devices.  I have no experience of doing this 
but it sounds like you might be able to embed a Python interpreter or similar 
to do the scripting.  However this is just a suggestion, without knowing more 
about your particular custom Asyn protocols I can't really say whether it 
would be sensible or not.

Good luck!

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System