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Kinetic Systems CAMAC Software
config file:
CA_KSC = device_name
edconf interfaces screen:
CAMAC
YES
DEVICE
/dev/rcamac
ADDR
<>MODE
<>TYPE
Kinetic Systems CAMAC Driver
Kinetic Systems sells software interfaces for some of their CAMAC controllers on
some UNIX platforms. Presently, only the package for the 3929 SCSI-to-CAMAC controller on the HP700 platform has been used with spec. To use the Kinetic Systems
software, the location of the their object module must be given in response to the
"KSC 3929 SCSI-CAMAC file location" query when running the Install program.
(Note, however, there is no reason to use the rather expensive KSC software for the
3929 on the HP platform as CSS provides bundled support.)
GPIB Controllers
spec works with a variety of GPIB controllers as described below. (In addition, the
Kinetic Systems 3388 CAMAC-to-GPIB controller is available.) Up to four GPIB controllers can be configured simultaneously.
On platforms that implement the System V interprocess communications (IPC) semaphore and shared-memory system calls, more than one spec process can share a single GPIB controller. For those systems, each spec must have the shared version of
the GPIB controller selected. In the config file, a _L is appended to the module key
word to indicate the shared version. If multiple GPIB controllers are configured, the
controller unit number of the shared controller must be the same in each version of
spec.
spec uses the GPIB controllers at board (as opposed to device) level, which makes it
unlikely that other programs can use a GPIB controller while spec is using it.
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