Re: send a file to IOC

["gennaro.tortone@na.infn.it" <tortone@na.infn.it>]

ok,
thanks a lot for your suggestions and links;
I'm starting to study this solution;

Regards,
Gennaro

On Tue, 7 Apr 2015, Andrew Johnson wrote:

> On 04/07/2015 12:22 PM, gennaro.tortone@na.infn.it 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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