MCA support
This is a meta-story tracking the different hardware, feature and story status for everything related to multichannel analyzer support in bliss.
Hardware status
Hardware | Communication layer | Basic support | Advanced support | Full support |
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Mercury | OK: python-handel | OK: #137 (closed) | OK: #143 (closed) | |
Mercury-4 | OK: python-handel | Untested: #150 (closed) | Untested: #150 (closed) | |
XMAP | OK: python-handel | OK: #151 (closed) | OK: #151 (closed) | |
FalconX | OK: python-handel | OK: #152 (closed) | OK: #152 (closed) | |
MAYA2000 | OK: seabreeze-remote | |||
Hamamatsu | WIP: python-c7557 | |||
MCA MUSST |
Priorities XIA modes
Modes | Software | External | Gate |
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Single | 2 | /*
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1 (highest) |
Multiple | / | 3 | ∃ |
*
This mode does not seem to exist for the XIA mcas
Feature status for data acquisition and processing
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Bliss scans and usage:
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Bliss acquisition device: #144 (closed) -
xiaacq equivalent
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Data management:
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Model: #144 (closed) -
Stats and spectrum counters: #144 (closed) -
HDF5 export: #140 (closed) and #144 (closed) -
PyMCA support (special MCA data node?) : #926 -
Management of device calibration
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Data post-processing:
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ROIs counters : issue #184 (closed) -
ROIs / spectrum/ SUMs corrections: issue #185 -
software calibration: issue #187 -
statistics recording fix: #884
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XIA handel server
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data polling -
scan progress display -
logging -
info at start-up (bliss version etc.)
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info
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available configs -
more pertinent if HWD is not responding
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Feature status for mercury
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Acquisition mode:
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MCA #137 (closed) -
SCA: low priority -
SCA-HW
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Trigger mode:
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Software: #137 (closed) -
External: #143 (closed) -
Gate: #142 (closed)
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Run mode:
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Single: #137 (closed) -
Multiple: #143 (closed)
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Statistics:
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From hardware: #141 (closed)
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Preset mode:
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Real time: #141 (closed)
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Configuration:
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load/list INI files #137 (closed)
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Calibration:
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Get X scale in energy: low priority -
Configure calibration: low priority
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Acquisition status:
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Report last_triggered
: #143 (closed)
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BUGs
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ICR inconsistency int and float comparison -> rounding error ---> -
ERR: 13009 count time < refresh rate ----> #983 (closed)
#1757 (closed)
DOC see:-
usage -
perfs -
installation
Edited by Vicente Rey-Bakaikoa