Hardware Devices
Hardware Interfaces
Hardware that operates on serial (RS-232C) interfaces can be used on any platform.
With release 4.01.11 of spec, up to four GPIB controllers can be configured simultaneously. With release 5.07.02-9, up to eight GPIB controllers can be used.
With release 4.05.06 of spec, up to four VME controllers can be configured simultaneously.
With release 5.06.02-1 of spec, up to four CAMAC controllers can be configured simultaneously (with some restrictions).
Operation of CAMAC controllers that plug into the host bus may require special drivers written by CSS. (Note that the DSP 6001/2 with PC004 and the KSC 2926 PC board may now be operated within in spec in a polled, driverless mode.) The KS 3929 SCSI to CAMAC controller on the Sun platforms (both Sun0S 4.x and Solaris 2.x) requires a special driver provided by CSS. The KS 3929 SCSI to CAMAC controller can be used on the HP700 platform either with the (rather expensive) KS software or with the bundled software included with spec.
Multiple copies of spec can be run on a single platform to control multiple diffractometers sharing a single CAMAC or GPIB controller. In general, though, individual CAMAC modules cannot be shared by multiple copies of spec.
- Generic socket interface
- HP E2050 LAN/HP-IB
- HP SICL GPIB
- IOtech SCSI488/H
- IOtech SCSI488/S
- Kinetic Systems 3388 GPIB CAMAC Module
- MEN Mikro Electronik Gmbh M-08 GPIB Controller
- National Instruments AT-GPIB
- National Instruments GPIB-1014-1S
- National Instruments GPIB-ENET/10
- National Instruments GPIB-ENET/100
- National Instruments GPIB-ENET/1000
- National Instruments GPIB-PCII, PCIIA
- National Instruments PCI-GPIB
- National Instruments PCIe-GPIB
- National Instruments VME-GPIB
- Scientific Solutions IEEE-488, IEEE-488-CL/ISA
- Scientific Solutions IEEE-488-CL/PCI
- Source Forge Linux GPIB driver supported devices
- EPICS serial record
- Generic Serial ports
- Socket-based Ethernet-to-serial
- TACO (ESRF) serial device server
- SBS (Bit-3) Model 403 ISA to VME
- SBS (Bit-3) Model 466-1/467-1 S-Bus to VME
- SBS (Bit-3) Model 487-1 E/ISA to VME
- SBS (Bit-3) Model 616/617/618/620 PCI to VME
- Struck Model SIS1100/3100 PCI to VME
- Struck Model SIS1100E PCI Express to VME
- Struck Model SIS3150 USB to VME
- DSP 6001/2 and PC 004 (ISA) (provides: camac)
- DSP CC-488 GPIB to CAMAC (provides: camac)
- Jorway 73A SCSI to CAMAC (provides: camac)
- Kinetic Systems 2926 and 3922 (ISA) (provides: camac)
- Kinetic Systems 3929 SCSI to CAMAC (provides: camac)
- Kinetic Systems 3988 GPIB to CAMAC (provides: camac)
- MEN Mikro Electronik GMbH M-Bus model M51 (VME) (provides: canbus)
- Trinamic CANnes PCI CAN Controller (provides: canbus)