areaDetector: EPICS software for area detectors

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

The Pilatus pixel-array detector.

From Prosilica

High-speed, high-resolution CCD cameras. These use GigE and Firewire interfaces.

From MAR

MAR-165 CCD camera.
MAR-345 online image plate reader

From Roper

All CCD cameras supported by the WinView program. This includes the entire Princeton Instruments line, as well as most of the Photometrics line.

From Bruker

The SMART CCD camera line with Photometrics cameras. This requires the PCI interface card, replacing the old ISA bus card, and requires controlling the detector with WinView, not the SMART software.

Please email any comments and bug reports to Mark Rivers who is responsible for coordinating development and releases.

Where to find it

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
1-0beta1	21-Mar-2008	areaDetectorHEAD.tgz	areaDetectorDoc	Release notes	See release notes

Required Modules

Module Version	Requires module	Release needed	Required for
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

Installation and Building

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).

Create an installation directory for the module, usually this will end with

.../support/
Place the distribution file in this directory. Then issue the commands (Unix style)
```
tar xvzf areaDetectorRX-Y.tgz
```
where X-Y is the release.
This creates a <top> application.
```
.../support/areaDetectorRX-Y
```
Edit the config[ure]/RELEASE file and set the paths to your installation of EPICS base and to your versions of supporting modules.
Run gnumake in the top level directory and check for any compilation errors.
Please email Mark Rivers so that a record can be kept of which sites are using this software.

In Use

This software was originally developed by Mark Rivers.

ANL/APS : In use at CARS beamlines.