Module Owner: Mark Lloyd Rivers: University of Chicago
This page is the home of areaDetector, an application for controlling area (2-D) detectors, including CCDs, pixel array detectors, and online imaging plates.
NOTE: This module replaces the ccd and pilatusROI modules. These older modules will no longer be supported, and users are encouraged to convert to this new areaDetector software.
Devices supported in areaDetector include:
From ADSC
From Allied Vision Technologies (formerly Prosilica)
From Andor Technology
From Axis Communications and many other manufacturers.
From Bruker
From Dectris
From Marresearch GmbH
From Perkin Elmer
From Pixirad
From Photonic Science
From Point Grey Research and many other manufacturers
From Rayonix (formely Mar-USA)
From Roper
Please email any comments and bug reports to Mark Rivers who is responsible for coordinating development and releases.
Some areaDetector support have been developed by others. These are not distributed with the areaDetector releases (source or binary) and are not directly supported by the areaDetector working group, but may be useful for users:
From ImXPAD
Beginning with release R2-0 (March 2014) the areaDetector module is in the areaDetector project on Github. This project is organized as a top level module and a set of submodules, e.g. ADCore, ADProsilica, ADPilatus, etc.
The following table provides links to the github repository, the documentation, and pre-built binaries.
Github repository | Description | Documentation | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
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areaDetector | Top-level module; ADCore, ADSupport, ADProsilica, etc. go under this | areaDetectorDoc | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADCore | Base classes, plugins, simulation detector | areaDetectorDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADSupport | Source code for support libraries (TIFF, JPEG, NETCDF, HDF5, etc.) | N.A. | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADADSC | Driver for ADSC detectors | adscDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADAndor | Driver for Andor CCD detectors | andorDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADAndor3 | Driver for Andor sCMOS detectors | andor3Doc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADBruker | Driver for Bruker detectors using the Bruker Instrument Server (BIS) | BrukerDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADCameraLink | Drivers for Silicon Software and Dalsa/Coreco frame grabbers | ADCameraLinkDriver | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADCSimDetector | Driver for ADC simulation | ADCSimDetectorDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADDexela | Driver for Perkin Elmer Dexela detectors | DexelaDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADFastCCD | Driver for APS/LBL Fast CCD detector | N.A. | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADFireWireWin | Driver for Firewire DCAM detectors on Windows using the Carnegie Mellon Firewire driver | FirewireWinDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADLambda | Driver for Lambda detectors | N.A. | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADLightField | Driver for Princeton Instruments detectors using their LightField application | LightFieldDoc | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADmar345 | Driver for the mar345 image plate detector | Mar345Doc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADmarCCD | Driver for CCD detectors from Rayonix (formerly Mar-USA) | MarCCDDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADMerlin | Driver for Merlin detectors from Quantum Detectors | N.A. | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADMythen | Driver for Mythen detectors from Dectris | N.A. | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADnED | Driver for neutron event data | N.A. | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADPCO | Driver for PCO detectors | PCODriver | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADPerkinElmer | Driver for Perkin Elmer flat-panel detectors | PerkinElmerDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADPICam | Driver for Princeton Instruments detectors using the PICam library | PICamDoc | Release Notes | N.A. |
ADPilatus | Driver for Pilatus pixel-array detectors | PilatusDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADPixirad | Driver for Pixirad pixel-array detectors | PixiradDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADPointGrey | Driver for Point Grey Research cameras | PointGreyDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADProsilica | Driver for Allied Vision Technologies (formerly Prosilica) cameras | prosilicaDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADPSL | Driver for Photonic Science detectors | PSLDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADPvCam | Driver for Photometics and Princeton Instruments detectors using the PvCam library | pvcamDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADQImaging | Driver for QImaging detectors | QImagingDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADRoper | Driver for Princeton Instruments and Photometics detectors using the WinView/WinSpec programs | RoperDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADSimDetector | Driver for simulation detector | simDetectorDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
ADURL | Driver for reading images from any URL using the GraphicsMagick library | URLDriverDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
aravisGigE | Driver using the GNOME Aravis library for Genicam GigE cameras | README | Release Notes | N.A. |
ffmpegViewer | A stand-alone Qt4 application to display a stream of ffmpeg compressed images | README | N.A | N.A. |
ffmpegServer | Plugin that use the ffmpeg libraries to compress a stream of images to files or via an html service | ffmpegServer | Release Notes | N.A. |
firewireDCAM | Driver for Firewire DCAM detectors on Linux | README | Release Notes | N.A. |
NDDriverStdArrays | Driver that allows EPICS Channel Access clients to create NDArrays in an IOC | NDDriverStdArraysDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
pvaDriver | Driver that receives EPICS V4 NTNDArrays and converts them to NDArrays in an IOC | pvaDriverDoc | Release Notes | Pre-built binaries |
Prior to release R2-0 the areaDetector module is in the synApps Subversion repository at the APS. The "trunk" directory contains the most recent unreleased code, while the "tags" directory contains the released versions.
For releases prior to R2-0 the software can be downloaded from the links in the table below. The software is available both in source code form, and in pre-built form so that it can be used without an EPICS build system. There are separate pre-built binary packages for linux-x86, linux-x86_64, win32-x86, windows-x64, and cygwin-x86.
Module Version | Requires module | Release needed | Required for |
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1-9, 1-9-1 | EPICS base | 3.14.12.3 | Base support |
asyn | 4-21 | Socket and interface support | |
busy | 1-4 | busy record | |
calc | 3-0 | scalcout and sseq records, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases | |
sscan | 2-8-1 | sscan record | |
autosave | 5-0 | Save/restore | |
1-8 | EPICS base | 3.14.12.2 (with all current patches) | Base support |
asyn | 4-20 | Socket and interface support | |
busy | 1-4 | busy record. This was formerly included in sscan, but now has its own support module. | |
calc | 3-0 | scalcout and sseq records, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases | |
sscan | 2-8-1 | sscan record | |
autosave | 5-0 | Save/restore | |
1-7 | EPICS base | 3.14.12.1 | Base support |
asyn | 4-17 | Socket and interface support | |
busy | 1-3 | busy record. This was formerly included in sscan, but now has its own support module. | |
calc | 2-8 | scalcout record, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases | |
sscan | 2-6-6 | sscan record | |
mca | 7-0 | mca record for getting time sequence of Total or Net counts from statistics plugin | |
autosave | 4-7 | Save/restore | |
1-6 | EPICS base | 3.14.11 | Base support |
asyn | 4-13-1 | Socket and interface support | |
busy | 1-3 | busy record. This was formerly included in sscan, but now has its own support module. | |
calc | 2-8 | scalcout record, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases | |
sscan | 2-6-6 | sscan record | |
mca | 6-12-1 | mca record for getting time sequence of Total or Net counts from statistics plugin | |
autosave | 4-7 | Save/restore | |
1-5 | EPICS base | 3.14.10 | Base support |
asyn | 4-12 | Socket and interface support | |
busy | 1-2 | busy record. This was formerly included in sscan, but now has its own support module. | |
calc | 2-7 | scalcout record, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases | |
sscan | 2-6-3 | sscan record | |
mca | 6-11 | mca record for getting time sequence of ROI counts | |
autosave | 4-5 | Save/restore | |
1-4 | EPICS base | 3.14.10 | Base support |
asyn | 4-10 | Socket and interface support | |
busy | 1-1 | busy record. This was formerly included in sscan, but now has its own support module. | |
calc | 2-7 | scalcout record, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases | |
sscan | 2-6-3 | sscan record | |
mca | 6-10 | mca record for getting time sequence of ROI counts | |
autosave | 4-5 | Save/restore | |
1-3 | EPICS base | 3.14.10 | Base support. 3.14.8.2 also works, but the bug in epicsRingPointer can be a problem on multi-processor Linux systems. |
asyn | 4-10 | Socket and interface support | |
calc | 2-6-7 | scalcout record, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases | |
sscan | 2-6-2 | sscan and busy records | |
mca | 6-10 | mca record for getting time sequence of ROI counts | |
autosave | 4-4 | Save/restore | |
1-2 | EPICS base | 3.14.10 | Base support. 3.14.8.2 also works, but the bug in epicsRingPointer can be a problem on multi-processor Linux systems. |
asyn | 4-10 | Socket and interface support | |
calc | 2-6-5 | scalcout record, needed by sscan database and useful for other databases | |
sscan | 2-5-6 | Busy record | |
mca | 6-10 | mca record for getting time sequence of ROI counts | |
autosave | 4-3 | Save/restore | |
1-1 | EPICS base | 3.14.8.2 | Base support |
asyn | 4-10 | Socket and interface support | |
sscan | 2-5-6 | Busy record | |
autosave | 4-3 | Save/restore | |
1-0 | EPICS base | 3.14.8.2 | Base support |
asyn | 4-10 | Socket and interface support | |
sscan | 2-5-6 | Busy record | |
autosave | 4-3 | Save/restore |
For R2-0 and later this is described in the INSTALL_GUIDE.md on Github.
For releases prior to R2-0 this is described in detail in the installation section of the areaDetector documentation for that particular release.
Please email Mark Rivers so that a record can be kept of which sites are using this software.
This software was originally developed by Mark Rivers.