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Subject: | Re: IOC options |
From: | Eric Norum <[email protected]> |
To: | tech-talk talk <[email protected]> |
Date: | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:51:00 -0500 |
Dear Mister du ToitThe bad news is that most of this hardware is custom made... and isThis bus seems to be something like the ISA bus. I made here at BESSY somthing similar 13 years ago, a little 8-bit addr, 8bit data + some control bus and adapted this easily to an ISA bus. So an idea could be to use PC104 with ISA bus, create a adapter to your bus and than there is just the work to create an driver for the bus access and device support to the records. This PC104 boards are shurely more cheap as a self developed one, and there is not much work on the software side, I think.
fairly old. This includes just about everything from powersupply
controllers to vacuum controllers to beam monitors ect ect.
The one advantage is that most of this runs in crates on a bus we call
SABUS (once again custom made) in basic form it is a parallel
communication bus with data and address lines and some control signals.
This is also a system that connects several of these crates together.
Then you have a differential system that has an 8-bit data bus and about
4 control signals.
best regards
Bernhard Kuner
-- Eric Norum <[email protected]> Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory (630) 252-4793