CAEN v895

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This is a VME card used on muons to set discriminator levels. Unfortunately the card has no readbacks, so you can only set it.

The underlying code is an asyn driver communicating via a vendor DLL to set register values. This code is in the EPICS-CAENVME support module

the ioc is configured using

CAENVMEConfigure("CRATE0", 0, 0, 0, 0x10000, $(CAENVMESIM=0)) 

0x10000 is a VME base address. Records loaded for a Crate number (CRATE) and card number on crate (C) e.g.

dbLoadRecords("$(CAENVME)/db/v895Crate.db","P=$(MYPVPREFIX),Q=$(IOCNAME):,CRATE=0,PORT=CRATE0")
dbLoadRecords("$(CAENVME)/db/v895Card.db","P=$(MYPVPREFIX),Q=$(IOCNAME):,CRATE=0,PORT=CRATE0,C=0")

The managing of sets of parameters is done using the epics autosave option called configMenu - see notes for recent release of http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/epics-modules/autosave/blob/master/documentation/autosave.html

A configuration called vmeconfig is created and enabled

dbLoadRecords("$(AUTOSAVE)/db/configMenu.db","P=$(MYPVPREFIX)AS:$(IOCNAME):,CONFIG=vmeconfig")
makeAutosaveFileFromDbInfo("vmeconfig_settings.req", "vmeconfig")
create_manual_set("vmeconfigMenu.req","P=$(MYPVPREFIX)AS:$(IOCNAME):,CONFIG=vmeconfig,CONFIGMENU=1")

Then the defaults config is applied

dbpf("$(MYPVPREFIX)AS:$(IOCNAME):vmeconfigMenu:name", "defaults")

As noted above a simulation mode can be enabled by setting the CAENVMESIM macro to `