klauer / anc300

attocube ANC300 piezo controller (EPICS device support)

ANC300 EPICS Driver

StreamDevice-based EPICS support for the attocube ANC300 piezo 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 4-21 http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft/asyn/
3. StreamDevice 2.6 http://epics.web.psi.ch/software/streamdevice/

A newer StreamDevice may be required than the NSLS-II Debian package has (as of early 2013). If included in $(TOP)/StreamDevice, it will be built automatically. The newer StreamDevice also requires a newer asyn (>= 4-18).

Optional

1. EDM http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/edm/log/getLatest.php Screens are provided in $TOP/opi for EDM.
2. Autosave http://www.aps.anl.gov/bcda/synApps/autosave/autosave.html

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/iocanc300/st.cmd
   1. Change the shebang on the top of the script if your architecture is different than linux-x86: #!../../bin/linux-x86/anc300 (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 line sets the prefix to all of your ANC300 PVs: epicsEnvSet("DEV", "E1:ANC300") Set the second quoted string appropriately.
   3. The following line sets the IP address of the serial device server communicating with the ANC300: drvAsynIPPortConfigure("$(PORT)", "10.0.2.5:7230") The IP address should be changed, but the port should remain the same.
   4. The ANC300 has a configurable number of axes (up to 6), add these lines for each axis, replacing the 1 with the axis number (1-6): epicsEnvSet "AXIS", 1 < anc300_axis.cmd
4. Go to the top directory and make
5. If all goes well:

   cd iocBoot/iocanc300
   chmod +x st.cmd
   ./st.cmd`
   

6. Run EDM:

   export EDMDATAFILES=$TOP/opi:$EDMDATAFILES
   (general configuration)
   edm -x -m "DEV=E1:ANC300" anc300_axes
   
   (axis 1)
   edm -x -m "DEV=E1:ANC300,A=1" anc300_axis