... We present software and hardware approach used to integrate a new CCD controller with the COAST as well as results from lab tests of the detector and controller. ... By using an EMCCD as the detector, it is simple to introduce spectroscopic capability to the COAST, dispersing a spectrum of interfered light across a single row of the detector, and reading the row out every 0.2 ms (5 kHz), as shown in Fig. ... We report on progress made on a GDFT for the COAST which uses the new EMCCD spectrometer. ...