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

From Prosilica

From ADSC

From MAR

From Roper (coming soon)

From Bruker (coming soon)

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
1-3 24-Nov-2008 areaDetectorR1-3.tgz areaDetectorDoc Release notes See release notes
1-2 24-Oct-2008 areaDetectorR1-2.tgz areaDetectorDoc Release notes See release notes
1-1 10-May-2008 areaDetectorR1-1.tgz areaDetectorDoc Release notes See release notes
1-0 11-Apr-2008 areaDetectorR1-0.tgz areaDetectorDoc Release notes See release notes

Required Modules

Module Version Requires module Release needed Required for
1-3 EPICS base 3.14.10 Base support. 3.14.8.2 also works, but the bug in epicsRingPointer can be a problem on multi-processor Linux systems.
asyn 4-10 Socket and interface support
calc 2-6-7 scalcout record, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases
sscan 2-6-2 sscan and busy records
mca 6-10 mca record for getting time sequence of ROI counts
autosave 4-4 Save/restore
1-2 EPICS base 3.14.10 Base support. 3.14.8.2 also works, but the bug in epicsRingPointer can be a problem on multi-processor Linux systems.
asyn 4-10 Socket and interface support
calc 2-6-5 scalcout record, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases
sscan 2-5-6 Busy record
mca 6-10 mca record for getting time sequence of ROI counts
autosave 4-3 Save/restore
1-1 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
1-0 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).

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

    .../support/
  2. Place the distribution file in this directory. Then issue the commands (Unix style)
    tar xvzf areaDetectorRX-Y.tgz
    
    
    where X-Y is the release.
  3. This creates a <top> application.
    .../support/areaDetectorRX-Y
    
  4. Edit the config[ure]/RELEASE file and set the paths to your installation of EPICS base and to your versions of supporting modules.
  5. Run gnumake in the top level directory and check for any compilation errors.
  6. 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.