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Hardware Requirements
Pixelator runs on standard PC hardware and the only significant requirements are that your hardware cards physically fit. Since the common interface cards for interferometers, and from National Instruments tend to be PCI based, you need enough PCI slots (not the newer PCIe) to fit your set of cards. Further, the case should be large enough to fit cards inside (PCI cards tend to be bigger than PCIe cards). For a rack-mounted PC, the case should be 4 units high and should typically be a "long" version to ensure the case has enough depth.
Installation
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Setup Computer based on Ubuntu 18.04 64 Bit to be used with this Software
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Setup Computer based on Ubuntu 20.04 64 Bit to be used with this Software
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Setup Computer based on Debian 11 64 Bit to be used with this Software
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Setup Computer based on Debian 12 64 Bit to be used with this Software
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Setup Computer based on Debian 13 64 Bit to be used with this Software
Update Pixelator to a more recent version
Configuration
- PixelatorController Settings
- PixelatorGUI Settings
- Orocos Configuration
- Realtime Sampler Configuration
- 28-10-2025 Configuration Changes
Running
- Make sure the ZMQ ports match
- "No Hardware" test system
- Running a standard system
- Running with a debugger
- Running Orocos
- Energy Drift Correction