NGC OPTICAL SOFTWARE Claudio Cumani NGC Presentation - 2008, July 16 Differences btw IR and OPT detector controllers: intrinsic 2 "Exposure" handling Optical Rigid scheme for exposures (wipe - integrate - ["move charges on detector while integrating"] - read ). Active intervention of the control-server during the exposure is ti ti th th required (application of new voltages in each state). ... Starting an exposure = starting transfer and storage of data. ...

Fasti is an innovative design for infrared detector control. ... to use largely accepted standards as boundaries, as a PCI bus, a parallel interface or a serial, and to use few of them . ... The building blocks of Fasti are: . ... the serial bus for controlling housekeeping devices (temperature and pressure sensors or motor controllers) and programming data acquisition . ... Though not so fast, and lacking some forms of data integrity check, this bus is so widely used to be nearly unavoidable. ...

... Fasti is a controller architecture originally developed for fast infrared astronomical array detectors, and intended to be powerful and extendible. ... 2002), Foppiani et al. 2002)). ... The parallel input interface (now a commercial board). ... Esposito, S., Riccardi, A., Storm, J., Accardo, M., Baffa, C., Biliotti, V., Foppiani, I., Puglisi, A., Ragazzoni, R., Ranfagni, P., Stefanini, P., Salinari, P., Seifert, W., Storm, J. 2002, SPIE Conference AS06, Wizinowich, P. L. Ed., in press . ...

... 4-Bit Micro-controllers 8-Bit Micro-controllers 16/32-Bit Micro-controllers . ... Em-Marin: Not one of the most well known companies for micro-controllers, but never-the-less an interesting one. ... 1.2-3.6V+ 2.0-5.5V . ... 256 bit . ... LCD driver . ... 2x8 . ... More widely renowned for their consumer electronics, Panasonic make a range of 4-bit micro-controllers: . ... Winbond are better known for their multi-I/O chips, but also make a few 4-bit micro-controller, with: 16-bit ROM, 4-bit RAM. ...

S AO's New Generation Multipurpose CCD Controller . ... In the 1990?s considerable advances have been made in the world over technology of manufacturing scientific image detectors with high photoelectric characteristics, which called for the creation of new complex array controllers to operate such detectors. ... very low readout noise; . ... Quite a few teams of researchers and engineers are ingaged in the development of controllers. ... development, SPICE modelling and design of modules; . ...

... LO frequencies were 1/2, 1/3 and 1/8 of signal frequency 75 GHz. ... But single junction SIS mixer has 30 dB input signal power range only [ll and it may decrease at high frequencies more than 200 GHz due to Josephson and 1 "switching" noise rise [2 e Our experiments show that subhurmonically pumped SIS mixer may have improved saturation power and reduced noise at high frequencies in some operation modes. ... 269 Fig.2 Quantum for LO and signal frequencies SIS operating mode. ...

... Data may be optionally rescaled. copyheader copy header keywords from one FITS file to another ( see also FTOOL cphead ). copywcs copy just the World Coordinate System keywords from the header of one FITS image to others. fcolappend append a constant column to a FITS table fitsparsename Prints components of the extended FITS file name. fitspha convert ASCII files to FITS PHA ( See also listhead supplied with FITSIO. modifyheader modifies FITS header. ...

MRO-ICD-CAM-1100-0108 FTTNAS-FTTA.odt Page 1 of 7 MRO FTT / NAS FLC ICD FTT / NAS Electronics to FTTA Controller ICD MRO-ICD-CAM-1100-0108 The Cambridge FTT Team Rev 1.0 9 May 2013 Cavendish Laboratory JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0HE UK MRO-ICD-CAM-1100-0108 FTTNAS-FTTA.odt Page 2 of 7 ICD Description ... 2.1 Signal definitions.. ... The analogue input interface in the FTT-NAS electronics interface is to accept the full range of output available, specifically: 1. ...

... XmTel is a telescope control interface designed to to communicate with a telescope server, and Elwood Downey's XEphem, through the INDI protocol. It will also operate as a free-standing program for control of telescopes that use the NexStar, Paramount, and LX200 command sets, telescope drive systems built using Galil's industrial motion controller, and RC Optical's Professional series fork mount with electronics from Telescope Control Systems. ... See the notes in the Galil controller directory. ...