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SmarAct SmarPod piezo hexapod (EPICS device support)

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SmarAct SmarPod EPICS Driver

EPICS StreamDevice driver for SmarAct SmarPod Piezo Hexapod controller.

Requirements

Though it may work on other versions, the driver was tested on these:

  1. EPICS base 3.14.12.3 http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/
  2. asyn 4-18 http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft/asyn/
  3. StreamDevice 2.5+ http://epics.web.psi.ch/software/streamdevice/

Optional

  1. EDM http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/edm/log/getLatest.php

Installation

  1. Install EPICS

    1. If using a Debian-based system (e.g., Ubuntu), use the packages here http://epics.nsls2.bnl.gov/debian/
    2. If no packages are available for your distribution, build from source

  2. Edit configure/RELEASE

    1. Point the directories listed in there to the appropriate places
    2. If using the Debian packages, everything can be pointed to /usr/lib/epics

  3. Edit iocBoot/iocSmarPod/st.cmd

    1. Change the shebang on the top of the script if your architecture is different than linux-x86: #!../../bin/linux-x86/hxnSmarPod (check if the environment variable EPICS_HOST_ARCH is set, or perhaps uname -a, or ask someone if you don't know)

    2. The following lines set the prefix to all of the additional (i.e., non-motor record) PVs (with $(P)$(R)):

      epicsEnvSet "P" "$(P=E1:)"
epicsEnvSet "R" "$(R=SmarPod:)"

      Set the second quoted strings appropriately.

    3. Set the IP address of the controller here:

      epicsEnvSet "SMARPOD_IP" "$(SMARPOD_IP=10.0.3.9)"
epicsEnvSet "SMARPOD_PORT" "$(SMARPOD_PORT=2000)"

      The port should not be changed.

    4. For each device, load the necessary records:

      dbLoadRecords("$(TOP)/db/devSmarPod.db","P=$(P),R=$(R),PORT=$(ASYN_PORT),A=0")

  4. Go to the top directory and make

  5. If all goes well:

    $ cd iocBoot/iocSmarPod
$ chmod +x st.cmd
$ ./st.cmd

  6. Run EDM:

    $ export EDMDATAFILES=$TOP/op/edl:$EDMDATAFILES
$ edm -x -m "P=E1:,R=SmarPod:" smarpod