RE: CAEN VME crate with controller card plus digitizers

[Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Here are a few things you could look at:

 

This is a framework for transient recorders, i.e. waveform digitizers

https://github.com/epics-modules/transRecorder

 

This is a VME driver I have written for an SIS Multi-Channel Scaler, which is somewhat like a waveform digitizer:

https://github.com/epics-modules/mca/tree/master/mcaApp/SISSrc

 

Mark

 

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Josh Fiddler via Tech-talk
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 1:47 PM
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Subject: CAEN VME crate with controller card plus digitizers

 

Greetings everyone, 

 

My current task involves implementing support for reading waveforms from a CAEN V1740 Digitizer card installed in a CAEN 8008B VME crate with the V1718 USB2 Bridge. They provide libraries for grabbing data with a CL application, but I want to ask if anyone has experience with this family of devices from CAEN.

 

I've looked at soft support and the VMErecord jumped out but in hardware support there isn't a module that my current knowledge makes as an obvious choice for this set up.

 

High-level description

The digitizers are taking samples from single-ended inputs when triggered. The USB bridge is the link between the instrument and the IOC host and then onto a channel archiver taking the data to storage and made available to clients for analysis.

 

Thanks 

 

Josh