Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I am writing an EPICS motor driver for a Dover DMM1000
motor controller.  Inside the DMM1000 is a PMAC controller.
I cannot use any of the existing EPICS PMAC drivers because
the DMM1000 communicates through a serial port (RS-232).
This is not the problem.

The problem is that after referring to the Delta Tau PMAC Software
Reference V1.17 and other Delta Tau documentation I am unable
to successfully load a position into the controller.

The specific problem is that I need to load a 48-bit position ($* command)
from one of the halves of memory (preferably Y-Memory) but the following
are the only options I have for writing the value in memory:
1. 24-bit word in Y-Memory
2. 24-bit word in X-Memory
3. A fixed-point double-word (48 bits) across both X and Y memory
4. A floating-point double-word (48 bits) across both X and Y memory

It seems ridiculous to me that there is not an option to load a position from
a double-word which resides in both X and Y memory, since that is the
standard way of storing the value.

Kevin Peterson
UNICAT

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