Hello everyone,
My name is Tony and I’m a
student at Idaho State University. I’ve
been doing a senior project to help establish an EPICS control system for the
Idaho Accelerator Center. I have been
trying to create a control system specifically for a Nemic-Lambda ZUP (20 V
10A) magnet power supply.
So far, I have hooked the
power supply into one of the ports of a MOXA 6650-8 terminal server using a
RS485 (4wire) cable. Then I sent commands
to the port with telnet 134.50.3.107 4002 to change the current, display the
model name, and so forth. One example of
a command that I use is:
:ADR01;:MDL?;
which serves as both an
initialization command and displays the make and model of the power supply
which has address 01. Now, the next step
is to figure out a way to turn those commands into process variables that I can
monitor or change with MEDM.
So, I found a paper
called “How to create EPICS device support for a simple serial or GPIB device”
written by W. Eric Norum. Since the
power supply is a kind of serial device I figured that it would be pretty close
to what I need to do. However, I’m a
little confused as to what to do in my situation on one part.
In the paper there’s a
section called “Create a new device support module”, which shows how to create an
EPICS application using the makeSupport.pl script. In the paper, after he creates a directory,
he runs the command:
/home/EPICS/modules/soft/asyn/bin/linux-x86/makeSupport.pl –t
devGpib AB300
So, my question is: since
I’m not using a GPIB device can I still use this kind of command? Would I have to change the devGpib part of
the above command to something else? I
was thinking that since there is a file named devGpib.dbd that maybe that has
something to do with the command above.
Hypothetically, if I were to replace the devGpib
in the above command with another .dbd file called drvAsynIPPort would that
create an EPICS application for telnet type devices? Then can I still just follow this paper for
the rest of it? Or, if you think that
this wouldn’t work, could you give me any other papers, sources, or example
files to look through which would help me to create device support? Thank you.