Module Owner: Mark Rivers: University of Chicago
This page is the home of areaDetector, an application for controlling area (2-D) detectors, including CCDs, pixel array detectors, and online imaging plates.
NOTE: This module will replace the ccd and pilatusROI modules.
Devices supported in areaDetector include:
From Dectris
From Prosilica
From MAR
From Roper
From Bruker
Please email any comments and bug reports to Mark Rivers who is responsible for coordinating development and releases.
The areaDetector module is in the EPICS Applications SVN repository on SourceForge. Persons wishing to collaborate on this project can contact Mark Rivers to get write access to this application there.
You can download the software from the links in the table below:
Module Version | Release Date | Filename | Documentation | Release Notes | Known Problems |
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1-0beta1 | 21-Mar-2008 | areaDetectorHEAD.tgz | areaDetectorDoc | Release notes | See release notes |
Module Version | Requires module | Release needed | Required for |
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1-0beta | EPICS base | 3.14.8.2 | Base support |
asyn | 4-10 | Socket and interface support | |
sscan | 2-5-6 | Busy record | |
autosave | 4-3 | Save/restore |
After obtaining a copy of the distribution, it must be installed and built for use at your site. These steps only need to be performed once for the site (unless versions of the module running under different releases of EPICS and/or the other required modules are needed).
tar xvzf areaDetectorRX-Y.tgzwhere X-Y is the release.
.../support/areaDetectorRX-Y