Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Mon, 2 Jul 2018 21:06:31 +0000

Folks,

dxp R5-0 is available.  This is from the Release Notes:

* Added support for the MicroDXP. This is a board-level product sold to OEMs to embed in their products. It is used in some Ketek SDD detectors and in some Vortex electronics from Hitachi. It is similar to the Saturn, i.e. it is a single-element system that does not support mapping. It does not have a Gate input.

* Upgraded the XIA Handel library from 1.1.11 to 1.2.19. This version is 64-bit compatible, so dxp is no longer limited to being built as a 32-bit application.

* Updated the included Plx library for the xMAP from 6.3.1 to 7.1.1.

* Added edl/autoconvert, opi/autoconvert, and ui/autoconvert directories containing the displays that are automatically converted from medm adl files. Add dxpApp/op/Makefile to automatically do the conversions. 

* Improved the medm files with correct size text widgets and correct text update widget data type to improve the conversions.

* Removed support for the CAMAC DXP4C2X. It is no longer supported by Handel and is probably no longer in use anywhere.

* Some old Vortex blue boxes from Radiant only have the EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) interface. The third-party Windows software that Handel uses for EPP (DLPORTIO) is no longer supported or available. dxp R5-0 supports the EPP interface on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux only.

* Some old Vortex blue boxes from SII/Radiant have a USB-1.0 interface and not USB-2.0. The third-party Windows software used for USB-1.0 is no longer supported or available. dxp R5-0 supports the USB-1.0 interface on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux only.

The documentation is here:
http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/epics/dxpDoc.html

Release notes are here:
http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/epics/dxpReleaseNotes.html

Source and releases are available on Github here:
https://github.com/epics-modules/dxp

Mark

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System