Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:38:15 -0500

On 04/07/2015 12:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm developing a run control / slow control system with EPICS
> and a feature of this system is FPGA reprogramming by XSVF file;
> 
> is it possible to define a PV (or something else) in order to
> receive a binary file sent by remote (e.g. by CSS) ?

Eric Norum developed something like that for programming flash memory
chips through CA when he was working here at the APS. The IOC it ran on
didn't have a lot of RAM, so it comes with a CA client program that
writes the data file (in this case it expects S-record format) to a
waveform record on the IOC one flash page at a time. On the IOC side the
code is an Asyn Octet driver.

You can find the code for it in the mcf5282 module here:
  http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/instrument/mcf5282/index.html
Note that there is other stuff in this module which will not be relevant
to you, but studying the files in mcf5282Sup/src with flash in their
name might give you a good starting point. Send questions here.

- Andrew

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System