Re: streamdevice question

[Eric Norum <eric@norum.ca>]

The problem here is with the client code, not the protocol.  

Something like the following might work:

import numpy as np

import struct

fNAN = struct.unpack("<f", struct.pack("<L", 0xFFFFFFFF))[0]

fArray = np.zeros(256, dtype=np.float)

fArray[0] = 1.23

fArray[1] = 3.14

for i in range(2,256): fArray[i] = fNAN

. . . send fArray . . .

You can’t just

import numpy as np

fArray = np.zeros(256, dtype=np.float)

fArray[0] = 1.23

fArray[1] = 3.14

for i in range(2,256): fArray[i] = float(‘Nan’)

since the 'unused’ bit pattern in this case is likely 0x7FC00000, not 0xFFFFFFFF.

However, if your device can actually use any ‘NAN’ value as an ‘unused’ indicator the latter example should work, too.

On Jul 26, 2016, at 9:18 AM, geyang <marco_hair@163.com> wrote:

hi,

I want to use streamdevice to communicate with a device. Each time send 256 floats (1024 bytes). The valid data part is changeable. For the rest parts will be filled with 0xffffffff (4 bytes). So I defined a waveform record like this:

record(waveform, "data")

{

  field(DTYP, "stream")

  field(SCAN, "Passive")

  field(NELM, "256")

  field(FTVL, "FLOAT")

  field(INP, "@psc.proto set_array  terminal")

}

The proto file as following:

set_array {

    MaxInput = 4;

    out "%4R";

    in "%(crc.VAL)4r"

}

Then use python to create a data list like this as the count of 0xffffffff is different each time:

[3.14,3.14, 0xffffffff,0xffffffff, 0xffffffff,0xffffffff,…],

cothread to caput the list to pv.

But the 0xffffffff will be converted to float 4294967295 and send to device as 0x4F800000 by streamdevice.

How to write the protocol file? Thanks a lot for your help.

Best wishes,

Geyang 2016/07/27

 

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