EPICS Home

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System


 
1994  1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010  2011  <20122013  2014  2015  2016  2017  2018  2019  2020  2021  2022  2023  2024  Index 1994  1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010  2011  <20122013  2014  2015  2016  2017  2018  2019  2020  2021  2022  2023  2024 
<== Date ==> <== Thread ==>

Subject: Extract a column of data from 2D Waveform Record
From: Peter Milne <[email protected]>
To: Tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:47:11 +0100
The ACQ196 multi-channel digitizer includes an embedded microprocessor and EPICS IOC, and in normal operation outputs a Waveform Record per channel on a relaxed schedule, 1Hz typical.

The data from the hardware is a 2D array in [sample][channel] order, and embedded software takes care of extracting ("channelizing") the data so that each waveform record is a 1D array eg CH01[sample].

Now we have a requirement to run this at higher pulse rates, up to 60Hz. The embedded software will not be able to channelize the raw data at this rate, although it should be possible to present a single Waveform Record per pulse containing the 2D data.

My question is how to handle this 2D record in a client and/or soft IOC running on another host?.

The client software needs to be able to take a slice [:][ch].

Maybe it's quite easy to do this outside the IOC (eg with Python Channel access), but ideally it would happen inside an IOC so that it's completely transparent to a client. The Subarray record is an obvious choice, but it appears to take a contiguous block of data, there doesn't seem to be a concept of a stride value.

eg assuming the Waveform Record refers to data
[samples][channels] with dimension (typical) [1024][96], the extract routine needs to run through the data set with a stride of 96.

It looks like subarray could be used to extract [sample-N][:] but not the required [:][channel].

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks


Peter.




--
Peter Milne			[email protected]
D-TACQ Solutions Ltd		www.d-tacq.com

Replies:
RE: Extract a column of data from 2D Waveform Record Mark Rivers
Re: Extract a column of data from 2D Waveform Record Andrew Johnson

Navigate by Date:
Prev: Re: Proposed support for additional Modbus data types haquin
Next: RE: Proposed support for additional Modbus data types Mark Rivers
Index: 1994  1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010  2011  <20122013  2014  2015  2016  2017  2018  2019  2020  2021  2022  2023  2024 
Navigate by Thread:
Prev: Re: About "dbCaMonitorLink" ? jun-ichi.odagiri
Next: RE: Extract a column of data from 2D Waveform Record Mark Rivers
Index: 1994  1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010  2011  <20122013  2014  2015  2016  2017  2018  2019  2020  2021  2022  2023  2024