Re: LXI devices

[Eric Norum <norume@aps.anl.gov>]

I was at an LXI seminar put on by Agilent last year.  I tried very  
hard to get a description of the details of the actual protocol on  
the network.  The seminar leaders kept on saying that they had VISA  
drivers and that I should use that.  I pointed out that this did not  
fit well into EPICS but that did not seem to matter much.

The LXI documentation does specify VXI-11 compatibility, and EPICS  
does have VXI-11 drivers in ASYN, but I know from experience that  
this is sometimes not enough.  For example, we've been unable to get  
a Tektronix 3000-series oscilloscope to initiate SRQ operations and  
Tektronix won't provide the information we need ("we supply a VISA  
driver -- use that").   Marty Kraimer had long and ultimately  
fruitless conversations with various Tektronix representatives on  
this subject.


On Jun 1, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Burkhard Kolb wrote:

> Hi,
> we are considering to buy some power supplies which can be  
> controlled via LAN. They conform to the LXI standard. Does anybody  
> have any experience with this, are there drivers...?
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