ADTucam

EPICS areaDetector driver for communicting with detectors using the TUCAM SDK, written for the Tucsen Dhyana XF4040BSI at CSX.

May need minor changes to support other Tucsen cameras.

Note

This has only been tested on the AXIS-SXRF-40. It has the Tucsen Dhyana 4040BSI camera electronics and uses the TUCAM SDK to interact with the camera. We use a CameraLink connection and the ActiveSilicon FireBird frame grabber (model number: AS-FBD-1XCLD-2PE4). You must download and install the required software separately.

Warning

There are still some issues that are not resolved with the TUCAM SDK.

• Timeouts on waitForFrame don't always work
  • We have a separate timeout thread as a fallback
• Software triggering is completely unreliable and suffers waiting forever for the frame to arrive
  • Use hardware triggering or free run mode

We are unsure if these issues persist on other cameras, frame grabbers, software versions, etc.

Quick Setup

NOTE: You must have the TUCAM SDK and EPICS Area Detector installed on your machine before starting.

Copy the TUCAM SDK headers and library files

See tucamSupport/README.md for instructions.

Create your startup script

If you want to launch your IOC from this repository, create a file under iocs/tucamIOC/iocBoot/st.cmd and set up your configuration there.

See https://areadetector.github.io/areaDetector/ADSimDetector/st_cmd.html for an example startup file.

Launching the IOC

Then from the base of the repo, run:

make install
cd iocs/tucamIOC/iocBoot
./st.cmd

Ophyd Device Support

There is an implementation of an Ophyd device for this IOC here: https://github.com/NSLS2/csx-profile-collection/blob/11aed998787c442ceb02c38873fc34879efc3c03/startup/csx1/devices/areadetector.py#L673