RE: EPICS support with NI-Daqmx

[Russ Berg <Russ.Berg@lightsource.ca>]

Hi Ana, I have written asynPortDrivers for DAQmx counter input/output and digital I/O, I am using it on Windows with a PCIe-6351 and a USB 6351. Unfortunately I haven’t had time to clean up the code nor collect it all formerly into a downloadable or anything but if you want I can put something together and send it to you next week.

I have compiled it using:

Epics: R3.14.12.4

Asyn: 4-21

 

-Russ

 

From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ana Malagon
Sent: May-13-16 11:40 AM
To: freddie.akeroyd@stfc.ac.uk
Cc: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: EPICS support with NI-Daqmx

 

Wow, these are great resources! Thanks everyone for the responses - I'll take a look at these links and see how far I can get.

Thanks again!

Ana

 

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:37 PM, <freddie.akeroyd@stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

Or using OPC could be another option
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/DBEEA58DDA77C14E862570E700726ECB
http://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/OPCsupport/

Regards,

Freddie

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From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of freddie.akeroyd@stfc.ac.uk
Sent: 10 May 2016 17:22
To: amalagon@uw.edu; tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: RE: EPICS support with NI-Daqmx

Hi Ana,

A while back I thought I was about to need some DAQmx support and so I built the code at http://sourceforge.net/p/epics/svn/HEAD/tree/applications/trunk/DAQmxBase/  but I didn't get round to using it properly as the need went away. The code there should build OK on Linux, if you wanted to run it on windows then it would require a few modifications which I put at https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/EPICS-DAQmxBase  (on windows the code can build with either DAQmx or DAQmxBase).

Another option might be to use NI Network Shared Variables – it looks like NI-DAQmx includes an I/O server that can publish NI-DAQmx global virtual channels as these, and then you could connect to them from an EPICS IOC running on either Linux or Windows using the NetShrVar module http://epics.isis.stfc.ac.uk/doxygen/NetShrVar/   I don’t believe LabVIEW is required to do this, just NI-MAX  http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/370466W-01/mxcncpts/ioserver/

Regards,

Freddie

From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ana Malagon
Sent: 10 May 2016 01:49
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: EPICS support with NI-Daqmx

Hi,
I'm trying to integrate a National Instruments compact daq (9184), and thought I'd ask if anybody has recently worked on EPICS support for this device, or other devices that also need the National Instruments NI-Daqmx library? I was looking through the tech-talk archives and found one lead:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2013/msg01052.php
but looks like this project doesn't work with recent versions of base and asyn. Just wanted to see if anyone has worked on this sort of problem recently so as not to reinvent the wheel - thanks!
Best,
Ana