Instrument Software

There is a large compliment of software required for control of the instrument. The functional requirements for the software are to be determined. The general areas requiring software effort include:

• System architecture
• Target selection tools
• Slit mask design
• Slit mask fabrication
• Instrument configuration and performance simulator
• User interface (GUI)
• Air-stage control
• Servo-stage control
• Stepper stage control
• AC synch. motor control
• Flexure control
• Thermal control
• TV guiders (Thomson/Burley)
• CCD array (Thomson/Burley)
  • exposure control
  • data pipeline
  • data display
  • data reduction
  • data archiving