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[email protected] (Gabor Csuka) · Thu, 02 Nov 1995 11:22:29 +0100 (MET)

> 
> >The CAN bus now successfully connected to Epics (R3.12.1),
> >useing CDI V4.0 interface.
> 
> For anyone who doesn't want to use the CDI, I wrote an EPICS CANbus driver which is
> already in use on UKIRT (and will be used by Gemini).  This drives the TIP810 IP
> module and has been tested using the Greenspring VIPC310 and VIPC610 carrier boards
> but also has software to drive the mv162 (not tested).  Device support is provided
> for ai, ao, bi, bo, mbbi, mbbo, mbbiDirect and mbboDirect records with full I/O
> interrupt and asynchronous record processing.  You can even use EPICS to build a
> simulator for another CANbus device to respond to RTRs on the bus.
> 
> Documentation is in preparation, and should be available shortly.
> 
> - Andrew
> 
>   O o ._    Andrew Johnson, Royal Greenwich Observatory
>      __\\_	Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ
>   __|ooooo|__	Tel +44 (0)1223 374823  Fax 374700
> ~~\_________/~~	WWW http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~anj/
> 
> 
> 
I will be very glad to test Andrew's CAN driver and epics connection on our 
environment while we have the TIP810 IP module, maybe this is bettert implemented
with more funcionality then ours. 

- regards, 

Gabor
--
DESY, Germany

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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