SinqEPICSApp
This is an IOC application which contains the drivers for SINQ hardware. EPICS purists may find it messy because it contains the drivers for all SINQ stuff in one package rather then in separate modules. This is just for ease of distribution. The idea being that all of SINQ shares one module/IOC application and configures in its startup file what it needs of it.
Drivers included:
- EL734 motor controller
- SINQ Delta Tau PMAC motor controller. This is a modified version of the Diamond PMAC code. The modification is necessary because PSI runs a different program in the MCU at SINQ then Diamond
- Nanotec bus motor driver
- Phytron MCU200 motor driver
- EL737 counter box driver through the scaler record
There are some streamdevice protocol files provided:
- spss5: for the Siemens SPS5 with the PSI custom RS232 module
- slsvme: for the SLS magnet controllers managed by the SINQ special vmemaggi program
- el755: the old SINQ magnet controller
- dimetix: for the deimetix distance measurement device at AMOR
There are two main branches here:
- Of course master from which you can build the PSI RHEL7 module and the EEE module
- The amorsim branch in which you can build the IOC application for ESS against the ICS setup. This is needed for the sinq-amorsim simulation. This branch exists because of the political problem to get a module into the ICS EEE setup.
Those political problems require a special development model:
- If you do something, do it in a separate branch
- When reasonably sure that what you did works, merge it both into master and amorsim
Take care of the sinqEPICsApp/src/sinq.dbd file. This is the one which differs mostly between amorsim and master branches.