Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Wagner <[email protected]> · Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:14:53 -0700

Hi everyone, 

I would like to access the Gpib address of a record within an ASYN devGpib device driver. I would like to use this information in custom messages to be sent to the physical device. Specifically I am writing drivers to communicate to several Gpib devices controlled with a PROLOGIX Gpib to Ethernet controller. The controller issues Gpib commands to the last device addressed to it via a custom command ++addr # (where # is the Gpib address of the device you want to address). Presently if multiple devices are under the control of a single PROLOGIX the individual Gpib addresses must be hard coded into the driver messages. i.e. 

  {&DSET_SI, GPIBREAD, IB_Q_HIGH, "++addr 19\n*IDN?\n++read eoi",NULL, 0, 200, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL}

gets the IDN from Gpib Address 19 and 

 {&DSET_SI, GPIBREAD, IB_Q_HIGH, "++addr 24\n*IDN?\n++read eoi",NULL, 0, 200, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL}

gets the IDN from Gpib Address 24. 

I would like to be able to access the Gpib Address (A) defined for a record in the OUT or INP fields, i.e:

field{OUT, "#L$(L) A$(A) @2) 

via something like 

 struct aiRecord *pai= (struct aiRecord *)pdpvt->precord;

 int addr = (int)pai->A; 

Unfortunately, searching through the API documentation I couldn't find how to access the Gpib address in the record struct. The codes a little dense so I could easily have missed something. I've had a lot of success with the PROLOGIX controllers and hard coding Gpib addresses definitely works, its just inelegant and unportable. Thanks for your help and advice. 

Andrew Wagner

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System