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| Subject: | Should ai, ao records have RAWH, RAWL? |
| From: | Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> |
| To: | [email protected] |
| Date: | Wed, 09 Oct 1996 09:39:52 -0500 |
Last week during a visit at DESY, Gabor Csuka suggested that the ai and ao records should have two additional fields RAWH and RAWL. The reason is that often it is possible to create common device support for a set of modules that differ only in the number of bits and/or polarity. I expressed concern that this opens door to an unlimited set of configuration fields. After discussion I had to agree that these two fields are generic enough that perhaps we should add them. They would not impact any existing support but future support could use them. For example if a device is a bi-polar 12 bit adc the fields would be RAWH 2047 RAWL -2048 If the device is a 14 bit unipolar adc the fields would be: RAWH 16383 RAWL 0 Comments anyone? Marty Kraimer