Experimental Physics and
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Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:15:51 +0000

In this case since your driver knows what bits should not be modified it may be clearer to just use mask=0xffff so SHFT=0.  Then the B0, B1, etc. in the mbboDirect record map directly to the bits in the register.  Your driver just needs to not actually modify the reserved bits.

Mark

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From: Florian Feldbauer [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:23 AM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
Subject: Re: mbbxDirect SHFT field

Hi Mark,

thanks for your answer.
I was using this mask, because all 0-bits are marked as "reserved" in
the manual of our
motor driver. So I wanted to make sure they are not written...
Good to know how the shift is calculated...I should check my other
mbbo/mbbi records as well.

   Florian

On 07/16/2013 06:16 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> If you look at the asyn/devEpics/devAsynUInt32Sigital.c device support you will see that for mbbi, mbbo, mbbiDirect and mbboDirect records the SHFT field is computed by the computeShift function in the record initialization function.
>
> This is the computeShift function:
>
> static int computeShift(epicsUInt32 mask)
> {
>      epicsUInt32 bit=1;
>      int i;
>
>      for(i=0; i<32; i++, bit <<= 1 ) {
>          if(mask&bit) break;
>      }
>      return i;
> }
>
> So it sets SHFT to the first non-zero bit in the mask.
>
> You have set the mask to 0x1f3c, which is 0001 1111 0011 1100 in binary.  The first non-zero bit is bit 2 (starting from 0) so SHFT is set to 2.
>
> So I think you need to use B0 and B1 for your switches, because the mask says that the mbboDirect value starts at bit 2, not bit 0 in the hardware register.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Florian Feldbauer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:15 AM
> To: EPICS Tech Talk
> Subject: mbbxDirect SHFT field
>
> Hey all,
>
> for the settings of the stop switch mode of a motor driver, we are
> using, a 16 bit code is used.
> Bit 2 and Bit 3 are coding the polarity of the "left" and "right" stop
> switch, respectively.
>
> I'm currently using bo records for each bit and one mbboDirect record to
> send all 16 bits at once to the device. As device support the
> asynUInt32Digital interface is used with a custom asynPortDriver:
>
> record( mbboDirect, "PANDA:$(subsys):MOTOR:$(sector):SAP:SWITCHMODE" ) {
>     field( DTYP, "asynUInt32Digital" )
>     field( OUT,  "@asynMask($(BUS),14,0x1f3c,1)TMCM142_SAP_U" )
> }
> record( bo, "PANDA:$(subsys):MOTOR:$(sector):SAP:LEFTSWITCHPOLARITY" ) {
>     field( OUT,  "PANDA:$(subsys):MOTOR:$(sector):SAP:SWITCHMODE.B2 NPP" )
>     field( ONAM, "active high" )
>     field( ZNAM, "active low" )
> }
> record( bo, "PANDA:$(subsys):MOTOR:$(sector):SAP:RIGHTSWITCHPOLARITY" ) {
>     field( OUT,  "PANDA:$(subsys):MOTOR:$(sector):SAP:SWITCHMODE.B3 NPP" )
>     field( ONAM, "active high" )
>     field( ZNAM, "active low" )
> }
>
> When I now set "PANDA:$(subsys):MOTOR:$(sector):SAP:RIGHTSWITCHPOLARITY"
> to one,
> PANDA:$(subsys):MOTOR:$(sector):SAP:SWITCHMODE.VAL is 8.
> So far so good.
> But the value in asynPortDriver::writeUInt32Digital is 0x20.
> Having a closer look to the mbboDirect record shows that SHFT is 2.
> Setting it to 0 inside the db-file has no effect.
> Any idea why it is set to 2? How can I change this behavior?
>
> The same problem occurs for the mbbiDirect record used to read back the
> settings.
>
> Best regards,
> Florian
>

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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