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This page contains links to get useful computer programs in use within the 40m community

Interferometer data extraction and control

name	author	CDS Interface	impl.	interface	comments
EZCA (Easy Channel Access)		NDS/EPICS	C++	command line
[http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/iLIGO/TDS_Software TDS] (Tools for Detector Scripting, "tedious")	Matt Evans	NDS	C++	command line	attachment:tds40m_080729.tgz
DTT			C++	GUI
Dataviewer			C++	GUI
labca		EPICS	C	Matlab	[http://dziban.ligo.caltech.edu:40/40m/117 elog entry]
mDV		NDS or frames	Matlab	Matlab
MEDM	Fermilab	EPICS	C	GUI
xyplot	Alex Ivanov	NDS	C	GUI (Gtk+)
[http://www.ldas-sw.ligo.caltech.edu/ligotools/ligo-viewer/ ligo-viewer]	Vladimir Dergachev	NDS	Tcl	GUI (Tk)	Popular for looking at trend data from off-site
[http://apex.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/gds/mathnds/index.html MathNDS]	Daniel Sigg	NDS	C	Mathematica
[https://www.gravity.phy.syr.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ligodv:home ligoDV]	[http://www.phy.syr.edu/~jrsmit02/ Josh Smith]	NDS	Matlab	GUI	Good for looking at offline data
loadLIGOData	Y. Aso	NDS	Matlab	Matlab GUI	A GUI for mDV + a GUI for plotting retrieved data
netgpib package	Y. Aso	GPIB	python	command line	A collection of python scripts/modules to remotely control or retrieve data from GPIB devices

proxies

ndsproxy	Peter Shawhan	NDS	Tcl	NDS
EPICS gateway	EPICS people	EPICS	C	EPICS

Other, more general stuff

[http://www.tortoisecvs.org/download.shtml Tortoise CVS], an excellent CVS client for Windows
Altium Designer is a schematic capture and PC Board layout beast
COMSOL is a finite-element package
yEd is a graph editor that can be used to generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks.
Liso and Eagle Electronics simulation tool
[http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en Inkscape]. Free software to edit PDF files
LIGO LaTeX

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|| ''name''                           || ''author'' || ''CDS Interface'' ||''impl.''|| ''interface''    || ''comments'' ||
|| [[EZCA]] (Easy Channel Access)         ||            || NDS/EPICS       || C++              || command line     ||              ||
|| [http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/iLIGO/TDS_Software TDS] (Tools for Detector Scripting, "tedious") || Matt Evans || NDS             || C++              || command line     ||   attachment:tds40m_080729.tgz           ||
|| DTT                                ||            ||                 || C++              || GUI          ||  ||
|| Dataviewer                         ||            ||                 || C++              || GUI          ||  ||
|| labca                               ||            || EPICS           || C           || Matlab          || [http://dziban.ligo.caltech.edu:40/40m/117 elog entry] ||
|| [[mDV]]                                ||            || NDS or frames   || Matlab           || Matlab       ||  ||
|| MEDM                               || Fermilab   || EPICS           || C                || GUI          ||  ||
|| xyplot                             || Alex Ivanov|| NDS             || C                || GUI (Gtk+)   ||  ||
|| [http://www.ldas-sw.ligo.caltech.edu/ligotools/ligo-viewer/ ligo-viewer]                         ||Vladimir Dergachev|| NDS             || Tcl              || GUI (Tk)     || Popular for looking at trend data from off-site ||
|| [http://apex.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/gds/mathnds/index.html MathNDS] || Daniel Sigg || NDS || C || Mathematica || ||
|| [https://www.gravity.phy.syr.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ligodv:home ligoDV]           || [http://www.phy.syr.edu/~jrsmit02/ Josh Smith] || NDS || Matlab || GUI || Good for looking at offline data ||
||[[loadLIGOData]]||Y. Aso||NDS||Matlab||Matlab GUI||A GUI for mDV + a GUI for plotting retrieved data||
||[[netgpib package]]||Y. Aso||GPIB||python||command line||A collection of python scripts/modules to remotely control or retrieve data from GPIB devices||
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+|| [[ndsproxy]] || Peter Shawhan || NDS   || Tcl || NDS   ||  ||
|| [[EPICS gateway]]  || EPICS people  || EPICS || C   || EPICS ||  ||

= Other, more general stuff =

 * [http://www.tortoisecvs.org/download.shtml Tortoise CVS], an excellent CVS client for Windows
 * [[Altium Designer]] is a schematic capture and PC Board layout beast
 * [[COMSOL]] is a finite-element package
 * [[/yEd|yEd]] is a graph editor that can be used to generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks.
 * [[Electronics/LISO|Liso and Eagle]] Electronics simulation tool
 * [http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en Inkscape]. Free software to edit PDF files
 * LIGO LaTeX