I am reading from an Acromag XT1221 analog input module, into the RVAL
field of an ai record, via asyn and modbus.
This module encodes analog voltages as 16-bit signed integers, but it
appears that EPICS interprets them as unsigned integers when it
reports the RVAL. As the input voltage crosses from a small positive
to a small negative value, RVAL discontinuously jumps from a small
positive integer to a large positive integer. The VAL computed from
RVAL via ESLO and EOFF also jumps discontinuously.
For example when the input voltage is +0.009 V:
$ caget Iso:GantryCouch:Collimator:Actual.RVAL
Iso:GantryCouch:Collimator:Actual.RVAL 17
$ caget -0b Iso:GantryCouch:Collimator:Actual.RVAL
Iso:GantryCouch:Collimator:Actual.RVAL 10110
But when the input voltage is -0.002 V:
$ caget Iso:GantryCouch:Collimator:Actual.RVAL
Iso:GantryCouch:Collimator:Actual.RVAL 65534
$ caget -0b Iso:GantryCouch:Collimator:Actual.RVAL
Iso:GantryCouch:Collimator:Actual.RVAL 1111111111111110
I expected this RVAL to be reported (in decimal) as a small negative
integer, not a large positive integer. (The binary numbers are not
exactly equal to the decimal numbers because the voltage varies
slightly between caget samples). Displaying the record contents with
dpbr (in iocsh) shows the same thing: large positive RVAL with small
negative voltages.
Here is part of the template that generates the ai record:
Here is part of the template that generates the ai record:
record(ai, "$(ROOM="Iso"):$(SUBSYSTEM):$(SETTING):Actual") {
field(DESC, "$(DESC)")
field(SCAN, "I/O Intr")
field(DTYP, "asynInt32")
field(INP, "@asynMask(CollimCouch, $(OFFSET), 16, 1000)MODBUS_DATA")
field(LINR, "SLOPE")
field(ESLO, "$(ESLO=1.0)")
field(EOFF, "$(EOFF=0.0)")
...
}
Here is the configure call in st.cmd. The modbusFunction is 4
and the modbusDataType is 0, which (with DTYP asynInt32) should select
16-bit word, in binary twos-complement format:
drvModbusAsynConfigure("CollimCouch", "AcromagCollimCouch",0,4,0,9,0,100,"AcromagXT1221")
Is there anything I can do to get a signed integer in this RVAL, so
small negative voltages result in small negative integers?
Jon Jacky
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