Sigma LBA-700 - Manual

3.2.7.3 Cursor Orientation _____________________________________________________ 76 3.2.7.4 Origin Location________________________________________________________ 77 3.2.7.5 Beam Colors__________________________________________________________ 78 3.2.7.6 Z Axis Scale _______________________________...

4.2 The Beam Display Window ________________________________________ 106 4.2.1 Frame Comment __________________________________________________ 107 4.2.2 Shortcuts ________________________________________________________ 109 4.3 The Results Display Window ______________________________________ 109 4...

5.3 Integration Control ______________________________________________ 123 5.3.1 Integration Operation ______________________________________________ 124 5.4 Digital Camera Operations ________________________________________ 124 5.4.1 Digital Camera Control __________________________________________...

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 General Information The Spiricon, Laser Beam Analyzer, Models LBA-300/400/500/700/708/710/712/714PC, is a low cost, PC based product for use in modern Pentium generation personal computers with high performance PCI bus architecture. It provides all the essential features n...

f) A high resolution color monitor. g) Windows ® 2000 or Windows ® XP Professional operating system with at least 64MB of main memory. h) A CD-ROM Drive. i) A PC compatible mouse & keyboard. Pentium and Pentium Pro are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Windows 2000 and Windows XP Pro a...

1.5 Safety Considerations While the LBA-PC does not present the operator with any safety hazards, this instrument however is intended for use with laser systems. Therefore, the operator should be protected from any hazards that the laser system may present. The greatest hazards associated with laser...

Chapter 2 EQUIPMENT SETUP 2.1 Equipment Setup This chapter describes how to get started using your LBA-PC. Follow these steps: Step 1) Install your LBA-PC frame grabber card into your PC. Step 2) Hook up your camera. Step 3) Turn on the system and setup your windows environment. Step 4) Launch the L...

Digital Camera Option Figure 4 Replace the cover of your computer. Restore the AC power to your computer. Note: The location of the connectors may vary depending upon which frame grabber model is being installed. The older LBA-400/500 series has a slightly different arrangement but the concept remai...

2.1.2.1 Analog Cameras Connect the video out from your camera to the BNC connector on the LBA-PC frame grabber card. This is the camera 1 input channel. If you have the 4-camera adapter option, then camera 2’s input is at the top, 3 in the middle, and 4 at the bottom of the adapter bracket assembly....

Step 7) Double click the file in the LBA-PC folder named “Setup.exe” to launch the install. (The windows file extensions, for this folder, must be set to viewable to see the “exe” extension.) Step 8) Follow the instructions in the installation dialogs. Step 9) Reboot when installation is complete. S...

2.1.5 Step 5 Configure Camera Type You should now have the LBA-PC application window on your monitor. The default configuration is for a basic CW laser setup. This will allow you to verify that your camera and hardware are operating correctly. If you received any error or warning messages while star...

The factory-supplied configuration files are write protected, so that you cannot accidentally lose or overwrite them. Each of these file names begin with a ~ (tilde), for easy identification. Some examples of these files are: ~lbapc.cfg The original default configuration. ~cw_basc.cfg A CW laser set...

The device driver was unable to allocate enough memory in order to capture video frames. This may occur the first time you boot the computer after installing the Frame Grabber card. Try rebooting the computer. If the error continues to occur you will need to add memory to the computer. LBA-PC requir...

2.4.3 Trigger Out Connector J2 (J5 on LBA-3/4/500 frame grabbers) pin 3 is the Trigger Out signal. This signal is factory set to output +5Vdc pulses. You can change this signal to +12Vdc level pulses by moving Jumper E1 (E4 on LBA-3/4/500 frame grabbers) to bridge pins 2-3. Note: Jumper E1 (E4) cont...

2.6 Special Setup for Pyrocam I Operation You must use special setups if you want to successfully interface your Pyrocam I with a Model LBA-PC frame grabber system. It is strongly recommended that you first become familiar with the operating characteristics of both your Pyrocam I and LBA-PC before a...

2.6.1.2 Setup requirements for LBA-PC with pyrocam cameras: Two files are provided for configuring the LBA to a Pyrocam I. They are ~PYROCAM.CFG and ~PYROCAM.CAM. 2.6.1.2.1 Setting up the Pyrocam Configuration. Go to File. . . Restore Config. . . and set the configuration to ~PYROCAM.CFG . 2.6.1.2.2...

2.6.1.3.5 Camera settings restrictions Under no circumstances, make any changes to the Advanced. . . Camera settings for the Pyrocam I. 2.6.1.4 Image synchronization considerations The Pyrocam I’s CCIR video output is always producing video images at the rate of 25 frames per second. Furthermore, it...

Chapter 3 MENUS AND DIALOG BOXES 3.1 File. . . Drop Down Menu Selections 3.1.1 File | Load. . . A saved data file can be loaded into the frame buffer for display and results processing. Four types of data file formats are supported and are delineated by their file extension labels. The results obtai...

Beginning with release v2.50, any of the three .lb3, .lb4, and .lb5 file types can be read by any of the LBA-300/400/500PC model types. However, the new .lb4 and .lb5 file types cannot be read by software released prior to v2.5. Beginning with release v4.00, any of the three .lb3, .lb4, and .lb5 fil...

3.1.2.1 Save As … Dialog Box Enter the drive:\paths\<filename> of the File that you want to save. Press Browse... if you want to append or overwrite an existing file, and you are not sure of the file’s name or location and wish to search for it. Figure 7 Enter the Start Frame buffer location f...

entries. The Summed image is organized Horizontal data first, left to right, followed by a carriage return, and then the Vertical data, top to bottom. Note: Exported image files cannot be read back into the LBA-PC’s frame buffer. Use Save As... and Load... for retrievable data files. 3.1.3.1 Export ...

3.1.7 Generate Gain Clicking this item will cause the LBA-PC to execute an automatic Gain Correction calculation cycle. The results of this operation will store a gain correction table that will be used to preprocess all data frames newly acquired from the Frame Grabber card. The status of the Gain ...

• The Hardware Zoom. • The Hardware Pan location. • The Camera Type or Resolution setting. • The Camera Electronic Shutter setting. • The Video Gain and/or Black Level settings. Warning: Gain Correction should be used with only one camera at a time . It will not correctly operate in conjunction with...

If you choose Results Logging , select the Format that you want the data to be logged in. Both formats will produce an ASCII text log with comma-delimited entries. The Spreadsheet format will precede the log with a single list of column headings. The Math Program format will precede each log entry w...

If you use the Frames or Time method, the logging operation will automatically Stop! when the Frame count or the Timer values have run out. To protect the log file from inadvertent additions, use the above described terminate method to secure your log file. When Logging is Frames or Time limited, th...

If Results Logging and Statistics are both in play, and if the Statistics feature is in control: The Statistics results are recorded into the Results Log file when the Statistics collection cycle is completed. 3.1.13 File | Print… The Print dialog box is where you tell the LBA-PC what information yo...

to use virtual memory as Frame Buffer space. A little virtual memory assigned to the frame buffer is not too bad. A lot can make you wonder what kind of alien being has just taken over your hard drive. Also, Windows will allocate real memory first, and when it’s gone, begin allocating virtual memory...

3.2.3.7 Pixel Scale, Pixel Units For analog cameras that use the Genlock sync source, only the V ..ertical Pixel Scale is set. The pixel scale value is derived from your camera’s detector specifications, or is user programmable to match the characteristics of your optical system. For the camera imag...

3.2.3.9 Lens Click on this box if your camera is fitted with a lens. When enabled the 2D image orientation is adjusted to depict the image as if the observer is standing and viewing the scene from behind the camera. When disabled, the 2D image is oriented as if the observer is standing in front of t...

frame, and then Stop! . Successive clicks on Start! will each cause one additional frame to be acquired. The Interval setting has no effect. • Block: This method will cause a Block Length specified number of video frames to be acquired from the frame grabber. What is unique to this method is that th...

file record number, and the Number of frames or records to post process. The number of frames can be 0, or 1 to the number of frames in the frame buffer or file. 0 means all the frames. The resulting frames will be placed sequentially into the frame buffer, beginning at the current frame buffer loca...

Figure 19 Operating hints: • Increasing Video Gain also increases video noise. Use Video Gain sparingly, or not at all. Leave it set to 1 whenever possible. • The Black Level will be adjusted automatically each time you perform an Ultracal! calibration cycle. Therefore, it is best that you make no c...

Note: This edit control is repeated in the Beam Display dialog box and is available in the Display Toolbar. • If the Set Reference Source item is set to Current Frame , the data in the currently viewed frame will be copied to the Reference frame. • If the Set Reference Source is set to Last Gauss , ...

3.2.5.1 Logging This switch will launch you into the Data & Results Logging dialog box. 3.2.5.2 Print This switch will cause the selected print options to be printed on your configured printer. You will not get a chance to reconfigure your printer or print setup item when you click this tool, so...

3.2.6.5 Elliptical Check on the Elliptical box to cause elliptical calculations to be performed. Having Elliptical results enabled will cause the nature of other calculations to be modified. In particular, Beam Width results will now be computed based upon the orientation of the Major and Minor axes...

Hints: Use Drawn apertures and avoid Auto apertures when making Top Hat measurements. Use Percent of Peak as your beam width method. Typical Percent of Peak Clip% settings are 50%, 80%, and 90%. Refer to the Top Hat section in Chapter 6 for additional details. 3.2.6.8 Divergence Two methods are prov...

3.2.6.8.2 Far-Field Divergence Measurements The Far-Field method requires you to measure the beam widths of your laser at two known locations in the beams far-field. The change in size is used to compute the rate of beam divergence in mili-radians. First collect a pair of Reference beam widths. The ...

3.2.7.1 Beam View Inside the Beam Display… dialog, click either the 2D or 3D radio button for the display mode that you want to view your beam in. You may also toggle beam display with the 2D/3D button on the toolbar. Note: In general 3D displays will run slower than 2D owing to the amount of comput...

3.2.7.5 Beam Colors Your choice of beam display colors depends upon which display mode you have selected. There are 3 choices available in both 2D and 3D modes, plus 2 additional choices in 3D mode. They are: • Color Bands : 16 colors plus white to indicate intensities at, or near, A/D converter sat...

Another Hint: A good time to use Z Axis Scaling is when you need to view the low energy down in the wings of your laser beam. Kick the scaling up to x8 , leave the scale scroll bar at the bottom of the slider, and maybe add in a little video gain and some frame averaging to quiet the noise. You’ll b...

appear in the display. This profile is a projection of the Current beam plus the Reference beam. All projections are made from the Cursor positions. 3D The Current beam will be displayed in Red . The Current plus the Reference will be displayed in Blue . If cursors are enabled they will follow the c...

• Peak : Crosshair will be displayed, and its location is automatically drawn at the peak energy location of the beam. Note: This operation will not function correctly if the results window is minimized. • Origin : The Crosshair will locate to the position of the Origin . Note: The Crosshair might n...

the color style selected to a Light Gray. Only the Contour display will remain in the selected Beam Color . Hint: Use the Color Continuous Beam Color type when using the Contour display style. 3.2.7.14.3 Rotate and Tilt You can use these edit controls to set the Rotate and Tilt angles of the X, Y, a...

Figure 34 Note: The LBA-PC program must be running, collecting data and non-minimized for the pointing stability program to collect data. 3.2.9.1 Main Controls The main controls are located in a toolbar in the upper left corner of the main window. These controls consist of buttons for Start , Pause ...

Figure 37 The Centroid and Peak Histogram windows now have horizontal and vertical plot scaling in units of pixel, with histogram bins the size of a single pixel. Note also that we have the same plot orientation as the LBA-PC beam window. In the Figure above we can see that most of the centroids are...

Figure 38 3.2.9.3.1 Zooming Histogram Plots The zooming feature for histogram plots works basically the same as it does for the strip chart window. (See Strip Chart Zooming) 3.2.9.3.2 Capture Resolution Settings. When setting capture resolutions to settings other than Full and 1X , it is important t...

3.2.9.3.4 Increment Bins and Reset The centroid scatter-plot is also a histogram of the centroid location. The color bar between the Peak and Centroid plots provides the user insight about centroid location/frequency. Colors in the upper part of the bar indicate higher frequencies. When running, the...

Figure 41 The user can either select one of the basic colors from the set on the left of the dialog, or create a custom color using the controls on the right. Clicking OK will place the selected color into the upper bar. Continue to add seed colors until the displayed palette matches your desired ef...

Note: Palettes saved as .pal file types cannot be loaded into the Palette Generation Tool (PaletteGen2.exe) for editing! 3.2.10.3 Load Colors The Load Colors button is used to load the seed colors from .sp2 files into the Palette Generation Tool for editing. Note: Users should save a .sp2 file for e...

3.3.1.1 PASS or FAIL results The remaining Pass/Fail dialog boxes are used to set the Pass/Fail limits for the results items that you want to test and screen for. When you check an item, you turn on the Pass/Fail screening for that particular result. At the same time, you change how that result item...

3.6.2 What Disables Ultracal! Ultracal will become DISABLED if certain data collection conditions, that were in effect when the Ultracal operation was executed, are no longer in effect. In all cases, these conditions are the result of an operators change to the spatial acquisition settings. The DISA...

Chapter 4 DISPLAY WINDOWS 4.1 Main Window You will probably want to run the LBA-PC application main window in its maximized display size. This will allow you to cram as much information as possible onto your display. We recommend that you operate in a minimum 1024x768 mode, larger if your graphics h...

Figure 45 4.2.1 Frame Comment The Frame Comment is a text string label that you can attach to a data frame. It can be saved with the data file, and it will print as a title if you choose to print the associated frame. You can replace the <Frame> number by double-clicking inside the Display Win...

<Frame> number will appear. Both the comment and the data frame can, however, be Write Protected. If the Assign to All frames box is checked: This comment will be applied to all valid frames in the frame buffer. • Empty frames will not be commented. • New frames that are acquired will not be c...

4.2.2 Shortcuts In the Beam Window… Double left click to bring up the Beam Display dialog box. 4.3 The Results Display Window This window will display the computed results based upon the selections enabled in the Computations dialog box. You can minimize, maximize, or resize this window. The top tit...

Figure 49 Hint: A short cut that will turn off the computed results is to minimize this window. 4.3.1 Shortcuts In the Results Display Window… Double left click to bring up the Computations dialog box. Right click to bring up a Shorthand Results selection pop-up window. This pop-up will allow you to...

4.4 The Pan/Zoom Display Window This window provides you with a graphical representation of where and how the digitized image relates to the detector on your camera, and the tools to modify those setting. The regions indicated in this display are not drawn to scale. This window can be minimized but ...

Figure 53 4.4.4 Zooming and Panning Constraints The Camera Resolution that you have set in the Camera dialog box will constrain how your displayed image can be positioned by the Panning and Zooming controls. For example: If you have set the Camera Resolution to 4x, then the image can only be positio...

4.6 The Histogram Display Window This Histogram display window is visible only when the Histogram check box is enabled in the Computations dialog box. This window can be minimized and resized. This bar chart is a fluence Histogram of the currently displayed frame of data. Each bar in the display rep...

4.7 Shortcuts using the Mouse A number of shortcuts are available that allow you to access some of the dialog boxes without going through the menu drop downs. These involve placing you mouse cursor into a region of a child window and then clicking either the right or left mouse button. These shortcu...

Chapter 5 TRIGGERING TYPES & CAPTURING METHODS 5.1 Triggering the LBA-PC The LBA-PC can support four basic types of triggering: • CW (or no trigger required), for lasers whose light output is continuous or pulsed at such a rate as to appear continuous to a camera (typically faster than 1000 Hz)....

and ½ the maximum possible counts based on the number of A to D conversion bits. For example: If you are using an LBA-712PC frame grabber (a 12 bit digitizer) you have the following possible Video Trigger Level choices: 256, 512, 1024, 2048. If you set the level to 512, the LBA will capture a laser ...

Example: With the Capture Interval set to 10, and a 30 Hz frame rate camera, the capture rate will be 3 fps. 5.2.1.2 With Trigger Type set to Trigger Out The frame rate of the camera and the Trigger and Capture Intervals will combine to determine the capture rate. Example: With the Capture Interval ...

Note: Do not confuse this type of integration control with features on high-end digital cameras that have externally programmable integration controls. These later types of cameras are programmed by issuing serial commands to the camera’s internal microprocessor. See section 5.4 for a discussion of ...

operates in a binning mode compatible with the LBA application then we will often supply multiple camera configuration files, one for each bin format. Camera binning can occur in two different styles. When the pixels are binned equally in both the horizontal and vertical direction, the resulting ima...

Chapter 6 COMPUTATIONS 6.1 Computational Accuracy Once you have mastered the skill of acquiring your laser beam's profile on the screen of the LBA-PC, your next thoughts will usually be directed toward the accuracy of the quantitative results. The degree of accuracy of the computed results will be b...

6.3 Beam Presentation Affects Results Effective beam presentation is essentially an attempt to improve accuracy by increasing the signal-to- noise property of the digitized data. Since the camera and the digitizing process primarily fix the noise level, most of our efforts will concentrate on increa...

The following equations describe the X and Y centroid locations from the collection of data points that satisfy the above energy clip level criteria. ( ) x centroid X z z = × ∑ ∑ ( ) ∑ ∑ × = z z Y centroid y Where: X = x locations of selected pixels. Y = y locations of selected pixels. z = value of ...

The standard deviations are derived from the variances of the energy distributions and are equal to the standard deviations squared. The variances are: σ x y x y x x x Z x y Z x y 2 2 = − ⋅ ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ ( ) ( , ( , ) ) σ y y x y x y y Z x y Z x y 2 2 = − ⋅ ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ ( ) ( , ( , ) ) Where: Z = the intensity...

equivalent second moment width for TEM 00 beams, and are a good approximation for many beams of mixed modes. The second Knife Edge selection will allow you to program your own Clip % and Multiplier values. This option will allow you to set up for beams requiring special settings, which could get you...

( ) ∑ ∑ − = x y xy xy S Z A 2 min Where: Z xy = Amplitude of the pixel data at (x,y). S xy = Amplitude of fitted surface at (x,y). 6.14 Whole Beam fit equations The bivariate normal equation is used to fit data in two locked directions, X and Y. The Whole Beam selection assumes the beam is round or ...

for the Y or Minor axis 2 2 / 2       − − = m w m m m e J J Where: J = Amplitude at the point m. J m * = Amplitude at the Gaussian center. m = Location of pixel. m = M location of the Gaussian center. w m * = Width at 1/e² of energy. Parameters marked with an asterisk (*) are variables fitte...

becomes better and vice versa. The Correlation gives a relative feeling for how well the data matches a Gaussian surface. However, this result is relative, not absolute. A result of 0.8 tells us the data is a better Gaussian shape than a result of 0.7 and a worse Gaussian than 0.9, but it does not t...

Notice: In general it is not advisable to use the Auto Aperture feature when making Top Hat measurements . 6.18.1 Top Hat Mean and Standard Deviation The computation of the Mean and Standard Deviation are described in the equations below: for the Mean, Z Z n = ∑ Where: Z = Mean intensity n = Number ...

Where: F = The Top Hat Factor (area under the curve) 6.20 Effective Area and Effective Diameter All of the pixels that are above the clip level are included in the Effective Area and Diameter results. If an aperture is present then the analysis is confined to just the pixels inside the aperture. The...

f = The focal length of the imaging optic at the wavelength of the laser. If you are not already versed in the theory behind the Focal Length method, we recommend the following reference document: Laser Far-Field Beam-Profile Measurements by the Focal Plane Technique , by G.W. Day and C.F. Stubenrau...

for the Standard Deviation, ( ) σ = − − = ∑ S s n n n 1 2 1 Where: σ = std. deviation. n = number of samples. Σ (S - s )² = sum of the square of the differences between the mean and each sample. The Maximum and Minimum are just the largest and smallest values encountered in the samples. 6.24 Frame A...

When Frame Summing is enabled, the display will update with the summed results only after all frames have been received. Any calculations will similarly be performed only after all frames have been received. Notice : When Frame Summing is enabled and you click on Stop !, the LBA will immediately abo...

6.27 Convolution Convolution algorithms in the LBA-PC may take on a number of forms, some of which might not fit the exact description that is to follow. In the broadest sense, convolution refers to a general-purpose algorithm that can be used in performing a variety of area process transformations....

Chapter 7 DIGITAL CAMERA OPTION 7.1 Digital Camera Option This section will discuss how to interface a Digital Camera with an LBA- 400/500/700/708/710/712/714PC-D equipped with the Digital Camera Option. This option is identified by the presence of a –D in the title bar model designation. The frame ...

VD15-0+/-… LBA-7XX Connect the digital data signals to these inputs. VD11 is the MSB and VD0 is the LSB. Connect the LSB from your camera to VD0. Unused connections must always involve the MSB’s. VD+ must be a logic high to denote a true condition of a data bit. Set the Pixel Bits value to the numbe...

If your camera has fewer data output signals than the LBA has inputs, then use the upper most data inputs, starting at VD11, and cut open the following jumper traces: • For an LBA-500PC with a 10 bit digital camera, cut open E7 and E8. • For an LBA-500PC with an 8 bit digital camera, cut open E7, E8...

Adjust the Vertical Start value according to the following rules. (Remember you must input even values.) To move the image DOWN , decrease the Vertical Start value. To move the image UP , increase the Vertical Start value. Adjust the Horizontal Start value according to the following rules. (Remember...

Chapter 8 REMOTE OPERATION 8.1 Remote Operation The LBA-PC has nearly full GPIB remote control capabilities and partial ActiveX remote control capabilities. During the installation phase you were asked if remote operation was required. If you answered yes to the query, the installation process will ...

Chapter 9 ACTIVE X 9.1 Introduction The LBA-PC ActiveX server provides simple control of LBA-PC along with access to frame data, beam display image, results, statistics, and pass/fail indicators. The LBA-PC ActiveX server runs under Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional. Using the LBA-PC ActiveX ...

QuantBeamWidthY Width X (Width Minor) QuantDiameter Diameter Note the QuantRadius property. This is a new result not displayed by LBA-PC. This result is the distance from the Origin to the Centroid. Since the centroid is already relative to the origin this result is defined as: ( ) 2 2 y x C C Radiu...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC Doc. No. 10654-001, Rev 4.10 171 LBA-PC Capture Mode HoldNewFrame Discussion -1 The LBA-PC is not available 0 OK 1 LBA-PC is collecting frames of data The Ultracal operation runs for unknown amount of time depending on the camera and the LBA- PC configuration. Poll the Opera...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC Doc. No. 10654-001, Rev 4.10 173 allow access from the remote computer. 9.4.1 Remote Access 9.4.1.1 Server (LBA-PC) Computer To enable remote access to the LBA-PC computer, follow the steps in the section below for your operating system. 9.4.1.1.1 Windows 2000 1. Start DCOMC...

9.4.1.2.3.1 Windows 2000 1. Start DCOMCNFG. From the Start menu select Run… , type dcomcnfg and click OK . 2. Configure the client computer for automatic remote access. On the Applications tab, scroll down until you see LbapcActiveX EXE . Click on LbapcActiveX EXE then click the Properties… button. ...

Chapter 10 REMOTE GPIB OPERATION 10.1 Introduction The LBA-PC can be controlled as a remote device via GPIB. For the most part, communications between the LBA-PC and the host controller will follow the data format and coding protocols outlined in the IEEE 488.1 and 488.2 standards. This manual will ...

5. Click on the Advanced tab, make sure that Automatic Serial Polling is not checked. 6. Click OK. NOTE: It is possible for the LBA-PC to generate many service requests per second and the NI-488.2M default is to queue service requests. For these reasons we suggest you disable Automatic Serial Pollin...

10.4 Command Formats and Responses Commands to the LBA-PC will not normally generate a response back to the host controller, unless the command: • Changes remote/local mode • Is a query • Initiates an operation that produces results • Generates an error 10.4.1 IEEE 488.1 Command Support The LBA-PC i...

10.5 Configuration Commands Configuration commands allow you to do the following: Restore or Save configuration files Set or query all or part of a particular LBA-PC configuration 10.5.1 Restore and Save Configuration Files 10.5.1.1 LDC - Restore Config… To restore a LBA-PC configuration stored on d...

I Integer. ASCII numeric value in integer format. B Boolean. ASCII numeric integer value. 0 = false. 1 = true. F Fixed/Floating. ASCII numeric value in fixed or floating point notation. S String. Series of ASCII characters. Note that the backslash, “\”, has special meaning in strings known as an esc...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC 186 the conditions under which the frame was created (i.e. pixel scale, energy calibration, capture resolution, etc.) you will need to also transfer the Frame Status data (see A.5.4.7 FST). If you want 10.6 Transfer Commands Transfer commands allow you to do the following: D...

FRM? - Download data file (remote to host) FRM - Upload data file (host to remote) LDD - File | Load… data file (loaded @ remote) SDD - File | Save As… data file (saved @ remote) The FRM command is used to download and upload LBA-PC data files. The transmitted data is in an internal binary form that...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC Doc. No. 10654-001, Rev 4.10 193 the frame buffer. FrameNumber=33; #6124928(DAB)…(DAB)(^END) The following example describes how the host uploads a data file to frame 25. The replace parameter is specified so the camera or camera resolution will be changed if the settings in...

• Turn on/off write protection The following example describes how to retrieve the frame status of frame number 27. Host sends :FST? FrameNumber=27(^END) LBA-PC sends FST FrameNumber=27; CameraInput=0; Date=11/24/97; Time=03:17:55.16; PixelBits=8; PixelHScale=1.300e+01; PixelVScale=1.300e+01; PixelU...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC 200 color or gray scale and displayed in the beam window. FrameNumber=52; CommentLine=This will appear in the title bar; WriteProtect=1(^END) 10.6.3 PFS? - Pass/Fail Status To retrieve the current pass/fail status, you must send the PFS? command. The LBA-PC responds by repea...

Pan/Zoom Window Beam Window Frame Buffer Capture Window Frame Coordinates Detector Coordinates World Coordinates Coordinate Systems Figure 62 10.7.2 Pan/Zoom Window Detector Coordinates Detector coordinates define locations on the camera detector. Detector coordinates are always positive integers. F...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC 202 window must fit inside the current pan window limits retrieved with the PNW? command. Detector coordinates are used to position the origin location which in turn defines the World Coordinate system. Detector coordinates also are used to define the location of the frame d...

See section 2.3.1.1 RCC?, RCR? - Read Cursor Transfer for additional information. 10.7.4 Beam Window World Coordinates Most parameters that specify spatial coordinates must be in LBA-PC world coordinates. World coordinates are used for locations in the current frame as displayed in the beam window w...

10.8 ERROR MESSAGES Since the LBA-PC is pretty much of a black box and the GPIB is not much better we have included descriptive error messages and other information to make debugging a little easier. The LBA-PC maintains two output queues, the response output queue and the error message queue. To en...

10.9 SERVICE REQUEST 10.9.1 Service Request Response One of the provisions of the GPIB hardware bus is the ability to signal the host controller when an event has occurred. Under the direction of the host controller, the LBA-300PC can assert the SRQ line when new data is available, new results is av...

Appendix A Remote Command/Error Message Operation The LBA-PC can be controlled as a remote device via GPIB. For the most part, communications between the LBA-PC and the host controller will follow the data format and coding protocols outlined in the IEEE 488.1 and 488.2 standards. A.1 IEEE 488.1 Com...

Command Meaning Usage bit 5 - Event Status bit, ESB, set whenever an unmasked event status condition exists (ESR & ESE). bit 4 - Message Available bit, MAV, set when a response to a query is available in the output queue. bit 3 - Error Message Available bit, EMAV, set when an error message has b...

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Operator’s Manual LBA-PC 216 A.3 LBA-PC Command and Data Formats The LBA-PC does not support the IEEE 488.2 specification of sending multiple commands separated by semicolons. Each command must be sent separately and terminated by asserting the EOI line with the last byte sent. The following are som...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC 254 down. When in local control mode, any remote logging (:LOG) or synchronization (:SYC) is disabled, or cannot be enabled. The remote logging state is stored in the configuration. Remote logging is automatically re-enabled when the LBA-PC is returned to remote mode and the...

Key Type Value Description -y = move up by y y = new location - see :PNW? for limits +y = move down by y C = center vertically ±x and ±y use units defined by the camera resolution in the current camera configuration. For example, if the camera resolution is x2 then ±x and ±y will move the capture wi...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC 256 0 = reference frame NOTE: The detector origin is always the upper left corner so that y values increase going down and decrease going up. Returns: PNW <configuration> 2 Key Type Value Description UpperLeft I,I X,Y - minimum allowable capture location LowerRight I,I...

Appendix B LabVIEW Support B.1 Introduction LabVIEW is a product and registered trademark of National Instruments Corporation. LabVIEW is a general purpose programming system designed specifically for data acquisition and instrument control. LabVIEW programs are called Virtual Instruments (VI’s) bec...

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC 266 4. Height SUBVI.LLB You can either copy these library files to your LabVIEW development computer, or read these files from the Spiricon supplied CD. B.2 The Basic SubVI Library Examples SUBVI.LLB contains 22 basic functions that can be called by other VI’s. The functions...

B.2.8 Get Palette .vi Description: Get color palette table from LBA-PC . Input Output 1. GPIB address 2. Error in 1. Color table 2. Error out B.2.9 Get Pan Location .vi Description: Get current pan location . Input Output 1. GPIB address 2. Error in 1. Left 2. Up 3. Width 4. Height 5. Capture resolu...

Input Output Operator’s Manual LBA-PC Doc. No. 10654-001, Rev 4.10 271 below in detail. The remaining are covered with a brief description of their operation. All of these examples are contained in the LBA-PC.LLB library file. 1. GPIB address 2. Run/Stop boolean 3. Error in 1. Error out B.2.20 Save ...

B.3.1 Basic Results .vi This program shows the basic communication between LBA-PC and the local computer. It contains three buttons: “Run/Stop”, “Ultracal”, and “Auto Aper on/off” on the left side of the window. This VI shows all basic results on the right side. Basic Results Panel Figure 64 LabVIEW...

• Get Basic Results .vi These VIs are easy to understand if one has some experience in LabVIEW programming. The processing sequence is controlled by the “Error In” and “Error Out” connection chain. That means a function unit is processed earlier if it is closer to the starting “Error In” connection....

Operator’s Manual LBA-PC Doc. No. 10654-001, Rev 4.10 277 top hat ............................................ 138 ultracal issues................................... 129 knife-edge ......................................... 70 method ............................................. 69 INDEX 2D ............