This service allows users to share and download code snippets and applications suitable for a range of Andor software packages. This is a customer portal for the exchange of user-made files, scripts and applications in AndorBasic, Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW and other coding platforms. In addition, Andor are launching a brand new service, The Andor File Exchange. This increases the total number of frames captured to memory by orders of magnitude. Solis 64-bit can now make use of all available PC RAM for storing image frames. 64-bit support is available with the latest release of Solis (Version 4.24). Solis is now a fully 64-bit enabled application for Windows (XP, Vista 7 and 8) offering rich functionality for data acquisition and processing. We have used this to develop an innovative web-based user-interface to the instrument.Belfast - Andor Technology, an Oxford Instruments company and world leaders in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solution, today announced the launch of the new Solis 64-bit acquisition software for imaging and spectroscopy. We have applied the new architecture to the SHOC instruments, with the camera driver developed using Andor's software development kit.

The Sutherland High-speed Optical Cameras (SHOC) instruments incorporate an Andor electron-multiplying CCD camera, a GPS unit for accurate timing and a pair of filter wheels.

A controller layer coordinates the various components, and allows a variety of user interfaces to be used. Individual component drivers exist as standalone processes, communicating over a network. The architecture was designed to allow for multiple components and to be fast, reliable, remotely- operable, support different user interfaces, employ as much non-proprietary software as possible, and to take future-proofing into consideration. We describe a software architecture we have implemented for use with new and upgraded instruments at the SAAO. Until recently, software for instruments on the smaller telescopes at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) has not been designed for remote accessibility and frequently has not been developed using modern software best-practice. Van Gend, Carel Lombaard, Briehan Sickafoose, Amanda Whittal, Hamish The South African Astronomical Observatory instrumentation software architecture and the SHOC instruments The South African Astronomical Observatory instrumentation software architecture and the SHOC.

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