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://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||

= proxies =

|| [[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