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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
TDS (Tools for Detector Scripting, "tedious")	Matt Evans	NDS	C++	command line	tds40m_080729.tgz
DTT			C++	GUI
Dataviewer			C++	GUI
labca		EPICS	C	Matlab	elog entry
mDV		NDS or frames	Matlab	Matlab
MEDM	Fermilab	EPICS	C	GUI
xyplot	Alex Ivanov	NDS	C	GUI (Gtk+)
ligo-viewer	Vladimir Dergachev	NDS	Tcl	GUI (Tk)	Popular for looking at trend data from off-site
MathNDS	Daniel Sigg	NDS	C	Mathematica
ligoDV	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

40m LaTeX
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
Inkscape. Free software to edit PDF files

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== 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. It can be downloaded from [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html here].
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|| ''name''                           || ''author'' || ''CDS Interface'' ||''impl.''|| ''interface''    || ''comments'' ||
|| [[EZCA]] (Easy Channel Access)         ||            || NDS/EPICS       || C++              || command line     ||              ||
|| [[http://ilog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:7285/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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-"''It is easy to use and quite effective although the library of nodes is limited and hardly extensible. The results, from the graphical point of view, are not too bad, but other tools can do (much) better (Open Office Draw, Visio, etc.).''" Alberto's opinion
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|| [[ndsproxy]] || Peter Shawhan || NDS   || Tcl || NDS   ||  ||
|| [[EPICS_gateway]]  || EPICS people  || EPICS || C   || EPICS ||  ||

= Other, more general stuff =
 * 40m [[LaTeX]]
 * [[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