Mauro,
The CAMAC EPICS support consists of 3 parts:
1) a library of CAMAC standard routines (ESONE / ANSI)
2) EPICS device support for a number of records, calling only the
standard routines
3) an EPICS driver for the Hytec serial highway VME card which uses
the standard routines
plus a little bit more to integrate with EPICS
The original CAMAC support done at Jefferson Lab consisted of only the
first two components,
and included libraries (1) for both the Hytec VME card and the Kinetics
custom parallel bus
(3922?). At that time part (2) was completely independent of the
hardware interface used, and
only depended upon a correct implementation of the standard routines.
This standard library
also exists for a large number of CAMAC interfaces, and someone within
the high energy physics
community has probably written one for the 3988 card (even if not, it
should not be too difficult).
I cannot guarantee that the evolution of the CAMAC support has fully
maintained this isolation into
hardware independent device support, and hardware dependent
implementation of the standard
routines, but if not, it is probably close. Mark Rivers uses the
generic CAMAC record also with
the KSC2917 card, so it is probably OK. email him as: Mark Rivers
<[email protected]>
Erik wrote: "Eric Bjorklund, NPSM" <[email protected]>
>At LANSCE, we are currently converting to EPICS 3.13 (beta4, while
waiting for
>the official release) and VxWorks 5.2. So far we have had no problems
(but
>admittadly little actual field testing) with the camac software. Our
camac
>extension tree can be found via anonymous ftp at:
>
> thoth.adtiv.lanl.gov/Epics/camac_R3.13.tar.gz
>
>and contains drivers for the Hytec 2992 and the KS 2917. Also included
are
>device support and the generic CAMAC record. I believe others are also
making
>this conversion as well (Johnny Tang at J-Lab & Mark Rivers at
U-Chicago).
Chip
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