Re: EPICS mrfioc2 and new mtca card EVRTM-300

[Han Lee via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Alexis,

There are some variants of mrfioc2 in our community. Please confirm your mrfioc2 is the community mrfioc2 or other variants.

I am sure the ESS team will answer your questions precisely because ESS drove MTCA MRF products. Jerzy will help you with the technical implementation @Jerzy Jamroz, and Timo will help you with its design and architecture @Timo Korhonen 

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They may have yet another variant, mrfioc2, which has not yet merged into the community one.

It looks like now, finally, the RTM unit is available on the market and the MRF products are ready for the MTCA as a complete set.

Best,

Han

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 9:20 AM GAGET Alexis via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Dear MRF driver experts,

 

I am doing some test with the quite new card (1 year), mTCA-EVRTM-300. For those who don’t know it this is an universal output extender for the MTCA-EVR-300 or even apparently for the MTCA-EVM-300.

First, is someone tried and managed to use the card with the mrfioc2 driver ?

 

For now I’m just testing it with the EVR and I have some problem.

 

My issue :

I have added a substitutions files with  only:

 

file "mrmevrout.db"

{pattern

{ON, ONSRC, OBJ, DESC}

{"$(SYS)-$(D):OutRB0-", "$(SYS)-$(D):OutRB0-Src-", "$(EVR):RearUniv0", "Rear 0"}

{"$(SYS)-$(D):OutRB1-", "$(SYS)-$(D):OutRB1-Src-", "$(EVR):RearUniv1", "Rear 1"}

{"$(SYS)-$(D):OutRB2-", "$(SYS)-$(D):OutRB2-Src-", "$(EVR):RearUniv2", "Rear 2"}

Etc …

 

My startup file

 

mrmEvrSetupPCI("EVR-MTCA5", "$(EVR_PCI5)")

and

dbLoadRecords("evr-mtca-300u.db","SYS=$(SYS),D=$(EVR), EVR=EVR-MTCA5 , PINITSEQ=$(EVR),FRF=$(FREQ),FEVT=$(FREQ)")

dbLoadRecords("evr-mtca-rtm-300.db","SYS=$(SYS),D=$(EVR), EVR=EVR-MTCA5 ")

 

The evr-mtca-300u works well, but for the rearUniv I have the following messages :

 

LABO-MPS-SBCT:TIM-EVR-1:OutRB0-Ena-SP: failed to find/create object 'EVR-MTCA5:RearUniv0' : Object not found : EVR-MTCA5:RearUniv0

LABO-MPS-SBCT:TIM-EVR-1:OutRB1-Ena-SP: failed to find/create object 'EVR-MTCA5:RearUniv1' : Object not found : EVR-MTCA5:RearUniv1

 

I have checked the register and Jukka confirmed me that we have to use the TBOutput register and RearUniv in the driver seem to correspond.

 

Have I missed something ?

 

Thanks in advance

Alexis GAGET

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