EPICS: VMEVMI Support at SLAC

This page is the home of the EPICS VMEVMI device support at SLAC. This site gives access to the software source code, information on other modules which are needed to install and run it, and documentation on how to include and use it in your EPICS applications. Please email any comments and bug reports to Stephanie Allison who is responsible for coordinating development and releases.

Hardware Supported

The software can drive the following types of hardware:

Where to Find it

You can download the software by anonymous ftp  from the links in the table below:
 
 
Module Version EPICS Release Filename Documentation Release Notes Known Bugs
R0
R3.13.2
 vmic.tar.gz
See Below
None
None

Installation and Building

After obtaining a copy of the distribution, it must be installed and built for use at your site. These steps only need to be performed once for the site (unless versions of the module running under different releases of EPICS and/or the other required modules are needed).
  1. Start with an existing EPICS application area and cd to the src directory.
  2. Unpacking the distribution tar file produces a <vmic> directory.
  3. If you do not have the vmeCardRecord available to your application, comment out references to "devCardVmic<model#>" in the appropriate Makefile.Vx files or download vmeCardRecord.tar.gz and util.tar.gz and unpack them at the same level as vmic.
  4. If using vmeCardRecord, add vmeCardRecord to your src/Makefile.
  5. Next add vmic directory to your src/Makefile and run gnumake. Check for any compilation errors.
  6. When using any vmic device in your application, you'll want to include the appropriate "devVmic<model#>.dbd" files along with the normal base dbd files when building your application's database definition file. If you are using vmeCardRecord, also include vmeCardRecord.dbd and devVmic<model#>.dbd. You'll also want to include the appropriate vmic<model#>Lib, and vmeCardRecord.o if using vmeCardRecord, in src/Makefile.Vx when building your application's library.
  7. The base address for each VMEVMI card is set by calling the function vmic<model#>_init() from your startup script. This function must be called after the vmic objects have been loaded but prior to executing iocInit(). The arguments to the initialization functions can be found in the example scripts in the vmic/cmd/vmic<model#>Init.cmd. In addition, the EPICS support for some of the vmic models contain a hard coded card limit. To increase this limit the user will have to change the appropriate #define directive and recompile the source code.
  8. Example databases and templates reside in vmic/db.
  9. Example DM displays reside in vmic/dl.
  10. Please email  Stephanie Allison  so she can keep track of which sites are using this software.

Documentation

The following documentation is available:

In Use

The vmivme4100 software was developed by Bob Dalesio at LANL and upgraded by Marty Kraimer at APS/ANL. The vmivme2534 software was originally developed by Bill Brown at LBL and upgraded by Steve Lewis at LBL. All software was was upgraded to work without module_types.h by Kristi Luchini at SLAC.

It is used at the following EPICS sites:

Stephanie Allison