Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for the note!  That is indeed a recent development.  A few observations:

- Our driver does not use the EPICS motor record (this could be positive or negative, depending on your use case)
- From the README it appears David's driver does not support changing positioner type and use of rotary stages, which the PSI driver should
- I was not aware of the step size (nm -> pm) difference from the MCS - I will be changing the default 'slope' accordingly, thanks...
	==> Though according to the MCS2 manual rotary stages typically use nano-degree steps

- And of course, the fact that David's driver seems to have been tested is certainly an advantage over ours :)

Of course, I am sure both modules will be improved over time.  When we do eventually get a test unit, I will make sure to let the community know.

Best,
Scott
__________________________________________
Scott Stubbs
Controls Group
Paul Scherrer Institut 
5232 Villigen PSI
Schweiz

Telefon: +41 56 310 21 65
E-Mail: [email protected] 

-----Original Message-----
From: Peterson, Kevin M. <[email protected]> 
Sent: Mittwoch, 17. Juli 2019 17:45
To: Stubbs Scott Allen (PSI) <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: SmarAct MCS2 ASCII-based IOC

David Vine recently wrote an asyn motor driver for the MCS2 that uses ASCII commands instead of the vendor's C++ library.  The driver can be found in the motorSmarAct module:

   https://github.com/epics-motor/motorSmarAct

The README for the MCS2 support is here:

 
https://github.com/epics-motor/motorSmarAct/blob/master/smarActApp/src/README.SmarActMCS2

Kevin


On 7/17/19 4:31 AM, Stubbs Scott Allen (PSI) via Tech-talk wrote:
> Dear Tech-talkers,
> 
> As it seems there is no fully ASCII-'byte stream' based IOC for the 
> SmarAct MCS2 (at least not available publicly) I am pleased to present 
> our first attempt at one using StreamDevice.  I began developing it 
> based on our MCS IOC when we believed we would need to integrate the
> MCS2 for a particular project. As we purchased the MCS in the end, and 
> we have no MCS2 units for testing, our development has also stopped 
> for the time being.
> 
> Comments, forks, additions and/or fixes welcome. Note that while we 
> have put some effort in converting commands and EPICS records from the 
> MCS (e.g. positioner types, amplifier voltage.) this is a completely 
> untested IOC and still based around our internal PSI build system.
> However, the db/ and cfg/ files can be considered universal.  If I get 
> permission from SmarAct I will publish their full documentation here 
> as well.
> 
> Also, a special thank you to SLAC colleagues who gave me a starting 
> point for the protocol file =)
> 
> Link:
> 
> https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/smaract_mcs2/
> 
> Greetings from Switzerland,
> 
> Scott
> 
> __________________________________________
> Scott Stubbs
> 
> Controls Group
> 
> Paul Scherrer Institut
> 5232 Villigen PSI
> Schweiz
> 
> Telefon: +41 56 310 21 65
> E-Mail: [email protected]
> 

References:

SmarAct MCS2 ASCII-based IOC Stubbs Scott Allen (PSI) via Tech-talk

Re: SmarAct MCS2 ASCII-based IOC Peterson, Kevin M. via Tech-talk

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