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OMS VME58 - prom upgrade
- Subject: OMS VME58 - prom upgrade
- From: sullivan@aps.anl.gov (Joseph P. Sullivan)
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 15:28:02 CST
This is a notice to anyone who has already received a VME58 model motor
controller from Oregon Microsystems. The exec software on these boards
contains bugs that cause it's address decoding and interrupt acknowledge
functions to be unreliable when accessed from a MVME167 processor board.
OMS has a software fix for these problems that require a swap of the
PROM labled BV51.1-8 in socket U78.
Contact Steve Flego of OMS for more information at (503)629-8081.
FYI: After converting the 'motor' record's VME8 driver(drvOms.c) into
a VME58 driver I compared the performance of the two by
timing the motor polling(@10Hz) task with 8 motors in motion.
Results:
VME8 = 91% (task utilization)
VME58 = 12%