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ADSC Quantum CCD software general description

ADSC-software has been designed for X-ray data collection process control. ADSC-software is included into standard equipment set supplied with any ADSC X-ray CCD detectors. This software is compatible with almost all Unix operational systems: DEC Alphas, Silicon Graphics, Suns and Intel based Linux PCs.

One of the main features of the ADSC-software is multi-processing. Each out of six processes can communicate with each other by TCP/IP network protocol. This will allow for ADSC Quantum software to use multiple computers in the control and operation of the CCD detector. This will allow achieving maximal performance to handle extremely large data collected from one ADSC Quantum CCD detector (up to few hundreds Mb of data per minute).

The central part of the ADSC Quantum software is the Graphic User Interface, the only program for interaction with user.

ADSC Quantum CCD software main features

• Compact display of essential status information.

ADSC ADX status wintow: Compact display of essential status information screen.

• Manual control of motors and shutter.

ADSC ADX manual control: Manual control of motor and shutter screen.

• Manual wavelength change if the beamline supports it.

• Ability to define one or more runs to the system at a given time.

• Optional data compression of the images on output.

• Complete freedom to choose among high or low speed analog-to-digital converter in combination with no binning or 2x2 binning.

ADSC ADX CCD confic control window

• Geometric and intensity correction optional.

• Can choose to save "raw" data.

• Inverse Beam Method data collection enabled with a single button. Support for both single axis and Kappa geometry.

• {MAD} data collection runs with up to five wavelengths may be defined. All possible wavelength switching schemes are implemented; inverse beam data collection is supported in this mode as well.

• Once images are acquired from the CCD, the user naturally will want to inspect them. For this function, we have what we consider to be the best image display program in the industry, adxv.

• Magnify window with variable magnifications.

• Three dimensional representation of the data.

ADSC adxv three dimensional image representation

ADSC adxv three dimensional image representation

• Different color representation methods, including, of course, gray scale.

ADSC adxv zoom window

• "Line Cuts" through sections of data can be displayed along with the distance, in angstroms, of adjacent spots for approximate axis length determination.

ADSC advx line through

• Data from the main display window, magnify window, or line cut window can be saved in character, binary, or postscript format for convenient later inclusion into experiment documentation and publications.