Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Elliott Wolin <[email protected]> · Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:16:14 -0400

To all EPICS CAN experts,

We are about to construct a 3000 channel CAN system. Please contact me

if you have any experience controlling CAN buses from EPICS.

Our current thought is to use about 8 Anagate Ethernet-to-CAN

controllers, four channels per controller, to talk to the CAN devices,

about 100 devices per CAN bus. We'd use the ASYN framework to implement

the driver that talks to the Anagate devices (they communicate via TCP/IP).

I am open to suggestions and alternative solutions. I am especially

interested in existing drivers for any type of Ethernet-based CAN

controller so that we can avoid writing a new driver.

Also, is the ASYN framework the best choice if we have to develop a new

driver?

Finally, to Marty Kraimer et al: is the Java IOC and port driver

framework ready? Might we use this instead?

Thanks,

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				Sincerely,
					Elliott

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System