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Subject: Generic Fieldbus Device Support (GPIB and others)
From: Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]>
To: EPICS Techtalk <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:56:20 +0200
Hello all,

I've written a generic device support that should be able to talk
to all fieldbus devices, which do I/O as a stream of bytes. 
I call it the Stream Device.

We use some devices with a RS232 interface, that is connected to a
RS232-CAN module, as well as some GPIB devices. My device support
has been tested for CAN (ESD CAN02 board) and GPIB (Microsys IEC03
board), but can be extended to any bus that handles byte streams.

What streams to send and to receive can be configured in an easy
to write "protocol file". Thus no C coding is required to support
new hardware. It uses printf/scanf-like format desriptions that are
replaced by the contents of record fields (VAL,RVAL,RBV).
In addition to the printf/scanf-formats, it also supports binary ASCII,
raw machine integers (big or little endian) and enums.

There are interfaces for the recordtypes ai, ao, bi, bo, mbbi, mbbo,
mbbiDirect, mbboDirect, stringin, stringout, longin, longout.
This list can easily be extended with more recordtypes (but ony
scalar types until now; that means no waveforms).

The bus interface is generic. There is an interface for CAN busses
that have the functions from Andrew Johnson's "canBus.h". Another
interface for GPIB is in alpha stage. (I didn't like the "Gpib.h"
interface from EPICS, it's too board specific.)

Information is avaliable under
http://www.delta.uni-dortmund.de/controls/pub/doc/streamDevice

A beta version will be released before the ICALEPCS meeting in Trieste
(October).

-- 
Dirk Zimoch
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Re: Generic Fieldbus Device Support (GPIB and others) Benjamin Franksen

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