Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:14:45 +0200

On 10/09/2014 11:30, [email protected] wrote:

I am not sure what form factors and devices you are interested in. We experimented with driving some NI cRIO devices mounted in their NI 9144 8-Slot EtherCAT Slave Chassis. My memory is that it worked, but in a limited way.

cRIO and flexRIO through PCIe

To be more specific (extracted from  the ITER hardware catalog):
   PCIe to cRIO chassis (8361 to 9159)
   several boards (9425/9426, 9476/9477, 9205, 9264)
and
   PCIe to PXIe chassis (8361 to 1065/1066)
   several boards (7966R/5761R, 7961R/6581, 7966R/1483)

To take full advantage of the system, you still needed to buy an NI development environment to tailor the Slave Chassis FPGA to your needs.

Of course you need this for development..

What I actually meant: no LabVIEW or vxWorks (or Windows, while we're at

it) at run time.

Cheers,
~Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Lange [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 10 September 2014 09:41
To: EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: Device Support Options for NI RIO

Hi,

Currently I am trying to get a view of what options there are for
connecting from EPICS to NI's RIO family of IO boards.
Specifically, I am only interested in solutions that do *not* involve
LabVIEW *nor* vxWorks.

I found a talk from last year presenting an approach developed by
UPM/CIEMAT. [1]

Are there any other things I should look at?

Thanks a lot,
~Ralph

[1] http://oa.upm.es/20654/1/INVE_MEM_NADA_136824.pdf

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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