Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Vahe Sahakyan <[email protected]> · Wed, 22 May 2013 12:25:21 +0500 (AMST)

Hello,

 I'm trying to create IOC for our XGS-600 vacuum gauge controller

(Agilent Technologies). It is connected via RS232 serial port and I know

the commands I'm going to use.

 This is my first real IOC to built. I read Norum's tutorial how to

built Gpib and serial device IOCs and I have several questions:

 Can we use the

http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft/asyn/R4-9/HowToDoSerial/tutorial.html

tutorial as base for our own IOC? If it is possible than

1) if my device is connected via serial port, should I use the same

command as for gpib devices, i.e.

    /base/asyn/bin/linux-x86/makeSupport.pl -t devGpib myDevice

2) If the commands of our device have the following format:

 #0002UHFIG1,end the command ends with "\n". How can we define it in a

gpibCmd structure? In a Norum's

tutorial it is written as following:

    {&DSET_LO, GPIBWRITE, IB_Q_LOW, NULL, "\377\377\033", 10, 10,
       NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, "\033"},

 3) In the above mentioned command to what must be changed

GPIBWRITE/GPIBREAD in case of RS232 connection?

If anybody had already written an IOC for this controller I'll be very

thankful to get advices.

    Thank you in advance,
       Regards,
                   Vahe

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System