ADTucam

EPICS areaDetector driver for communicating with detectors using the TUCAM SDK, originally written for the Tucsen Dhyana XF4040BSI at CSX which also uses a ActiveSilicon FireBird frame grabber PCIe card.

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