Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Eric,

 

Thanks for the suggestion, that works well.  Here’s an example:

 

From the database:

 

## Note that we need to use these scalcout records for the following ao records because

## the pump requires a value field that is exactly 5 characters, and we want

## get as much precision as possible. So we convert the value to a string and

## then use the first 5 characters.  We get 1.000, 10.00, 100.0, etc.

 

record(ao,"$(P)$(R)InfusionRate") {

    field(PINI, "YES")

    field(EGU,  "ml/m")

    field(PREC, "3")

    field(FLNK, "$(P)$(R)InfusionRateCalc")

}

 

record(scalcout,"$(P)$(R)InfusionRateCalc") {

    field(DTYP, "stream")

    field(OUT,  "@CPSyringe.proto setNoneString $(PORT)")

    field(INPA, "$(P)$(R)InfusionRate.VAL NPP NMS")

    field(INBB, "$(P)$(R)InfusionRate.EGU NPP NMS")

    field(CALC, "'ratei '+$P('%5.5s ',STR(A))+BB")

}

 

From protocol file:

 

setNoneString {

   out "%s";

   in "\r\n%*[><:NE]";

}

 

 

Mark

 

 

 

Hmm….one wonders at the sort of recreational drugs available to instrument software developers……