Common C++ library for SLS detectors data acquisition

Introduction

Motivation

Although the SLS detectors group delvelops several types of detectors (1/2D, counting/integrating etc.) it is common interest of the group to use a common platfor for data acquisition

System Architecture

The architecture of the acquisitions system is intended as follows:

• A socket server running on the detector (or more than one in some special cases)
• C++ classes common to all detectors for client-server communication. These can be supplied to users as libraries and embedded also in acquisition systems which are not developed by the SLS

  See also:

  MySocketTCP slsDetector

• the possibility of using a Qt-based graphical user interface (with eventually root analisys capabilities)
• the possibility of runnin alla commands from command line. In order to ensure a fast operation of this so called "text client" the detector parameters should not be re-initialized everytime. For this reason a shared memory block is allocated where the main detector flags and parameters are stored

  See also:

  slsDetector::sharedSlsDetector

How to use it

The best way to operate the slsDetectors is to use the software (text client or GUI) developed by the sls detectors group. In case you need to embed the detector control in a previously existing software, compile these classes using
make package
and link the shared library created to your software bin/libSlsDetector.so.1.0.1 Then in your software you should use the class related to the detector you want to control (mythenDetector or eigerDetector).

Author:

Anna Bergamaschi

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