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) |
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NDS/EPICS |
C++ |
command line |
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TDS (Tools for Detector Scripting, "tedious") |
Matt Evans |
NDS |
C++ |
command line |
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DTT |
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C++ |
GUI |
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Dataviewer |
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C++ |
GUI |
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labca |
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EPICS |
C |
Matlab |
|
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NDS or frames |
Matlab |
Matlab |
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MEDM |
Fermilab |
EPICS |
C |
GUI |
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xyplot |
Alex Ivanov |
NDS |
C |
GUI (Gtk+) |
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Vladimir Dergachev |
NDS |
Tcl |
GUI (Tk) |
Popular for looking at trend data from off-site |
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Daniel Sigg |
NDS |
C |
Mathematica |
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NDS |
Matlab |
GUI |
Good for looking at offline data |
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Y. Aso |
NDS |
Matlab |
Matlab GUI |
A GUI for mDV + a GUI for plotting retrieved data |
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Y. Aso |
GPIB |
python |
command line |
A collection of python scripts/modules to remotely control or retrieve data from GPIB devices |
proxies
Peter Shawhan |
NDS |
Tcl |
NDS |
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EPICS people |
EPICS |
C |
EPICS |
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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