Supported Detectors

Detectors in the Github areaDetector Project

Beginning with release R2-0 (March 2014) the areaDetector module is in the areaDetector project on Github. This project is organized as a top level module and a set of submodules, e.g. ADCore, ADEiger, ADGenICam, etc.

The following table provides links to the github repository, the documentation, release notes, name of maintainer, and repository status.

Github repository	Description	Documentation	Release Notes	Primary maintainer	Status
areaDetector	Top-level module; ADCore, ADSupport, ADProsilica, etc. go under this	areaDetector	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADCore	Base classes, plugins	areaDetector Users Guide	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADSupport	Source code for support libraries (TIFF, JPEG, NETCDF, HDF5, etc.)	N.A.	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADADSC	Driver for ADSC detectors	adscDoc	Release Notes	Lewis Muir?	Archived
ADAndor	Driver for Andor CCD detectors	ADAndor	Release Notes	Unknown	Active
ADAndor3	Driver for Andor sCMOS detectors	ADAndor3	Release Notes	Unknown	Active
ADBitFlow	Driver for BitFlow CoaXPress frame grabbers	None	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived, never completed
ADBruker	Driver for Bruker detectors using the Bruker Instrument Server (BIS)	BrukerDoc	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived
ADCameraLink	Drivers for Silicon Software and Dalsa/Coreco frame grabbers	ADCameraLinkDriver	Release Notes	Tim Madden	Archived
ADCompVision	Plugin that provides access to OpenCV library functions	ADCompVision	Release Notes	Jakub Wlodek, Kazimierz Gofron	Active?
ADCSimDetector	Driver for ADC simulation	ADCSimDetector	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADDexela	Driver for Perkin Elmer Dexela detectors	ADDexela	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active?
ADEiger	Driver for Dectris Eiger detectors	ADEiger	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADEuresys	Driver CoaXPress cameras using Euresys frame grabbers	ADEuresys	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADFastCCD	Driver for APS/LBL Fast CCD detector	ADFastCCD	Release Notes	Stuart Wilkins	Active?
ADFireWireWin	Driver for Firewire DCAM detectors on Windows using the Carnegie Mellon Firewire driver	FirewireWinDoc	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived
ADGenICam	Base class driver for GenICam drivers	ADGenICam	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADHamamatsuDCAM	Driver for Hamamatsu cameras using their DCAM library	ADHamamatsuDCAM	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADLambda	Driver for Lambda detectors	ADLambda	Release Notes	Keanan Lang	Active
ADLightField	Driver for Princeton Instruments detectors using their LightField application	ADLightField	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADmar345	Driver for the mar345 image plate detector	ADmar345	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active?
ADmarCCD	Driver for CCD detectors from Rayonix (formerly Mar-USA)	ADmarCCD	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADMerlin	Driver for Merlin detectors from Quantum Detectors	N.A.	Release Notes	Unknown	Should be archived?
ADMMPAD	Driver for MMPAD detectors from CHESS and Sydor	None	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active?
ADMythen	Driver for Mythen detectors from Dectris	N.A.	Release Notes	Joe Sullivan and Xiaoqiang Wang	Active?
ADnED	Driver for neutron event data	N.A.	Release Notes	Matthew Pearson	Archived
ADPCO	Driver for PCO CameraLink cameras	PCODriver	Release Notes	Tim Madden	Archived
ADPcoWin	Driver for PCO cameras using their SDK	ADPcoWin	Release Notes	Benjamin Bradnick?	Active
ADPerkinElmer	Driver for Perkin Elmer flat-panel detectors	ADPerkinElmer	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADPhotonII	Driver for Bruker PhotonII detectors	ADPhotonII	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived
ADPICam	Driver for Princeton Instruments detectors using the PICam library	ADPICam	Release Notes	Jakub Wlodek?	Active
ADPilatus	Driver for Pilatus pixel-array detectors	ADPilatus	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADPixirad	Driver for Pixirad pixel-array detectors	ADPixirad/ADPixirad	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived
ADPointGrey	Driver for FLIR (formerly Point Grey Research) cameras	ADPointGrey/PointGreyDoc	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived, replaced by ADSpinnaker
ADProsilica	Driver for Allied Vision Technologies (formerly Prosilica) cameras	ADProsilica/ADProsilica	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived, replaced by ADVimba
ADPSL	Driver for Photonic Science detectors	ADPSL	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived
ADPvCam	Driver for Photometics and Princeton Instruments detectors using the PvCam library	ADPvCam	Release Notes	Jakub Wlodek?	Active?
ADPylon	Driver for Basler cameras	ADPylon	Release Notes	Xiaoqiang Wang	Active
ADQImaging	Driver for QImaging detectors	ADQImaging/QImagingDoc	Release Notes	Arthur Glowacki?	Archived
ADRIXSCam	Driver for XCAM RIXSCam Detectors	ADRIXSCam	Release Notes	Gustavo de Souza dos Reis	Active
ADRoper	Driver for Princeton Instruments and Photometics detectors using the WinView/WinSpec programs	RoperDoc	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Archived
ADSimDetector	Driver for simulation detector	ADSimDetector	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADSpinnaker	Driver for FLIR cameras using their Spinnaker SDK	ADSpinnaker	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADTimePix3	Driver for TimePix3 cameras from amscins.com	ADTimePix3	Release Notes	Kaz Gofron	Active?
ADURL	Driver for reading images from any URL using the GraphicsMagick library	ADURL	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
ADUVC	Driver for USB Video Class (UVC) devices	ADUVC	Release Notes	Jakub Wlodek?	Active
ADVimba	Driver for Allied Vision (formerly Prosilica) cameras using their Vimba SDK	ADVimba	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
aravisGigE	Driver using the GNOME Aravis library for Genicam GigE cameras	README	Release Notes	Tom Cobb?	Archived
ffmpegViewer	A stand-alone Qt4 application to display a stream of ffmpeg compressed images	README	None	Tom Cobb?	Active?
ffmpegServer	Plugin that use the ffmpeg libraries to compress a stream of images to files or via an html service	ffmpegServer	Release Notes	Tom Cobb?	Active?
firewireDCAM	Driver for Firewire DCAM detectors on Linux	README	Release Notes	Ulrik Pedersen?	Archived
NDDriverStdArrays	Driver that allows EPICS Channel Access clients to create NDArrays in an IOC	NDDriverStdArrays	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
pvaDriver	Driver that receives EPICS V4 NTNDArrays and converts them to NDArrays in an IOC	pvaDriver	Release Notes	Mark Rivers	Active
specsAnalyser	Driver for SPECS Phoibos electron spectrometers, with DLD (Delay Line Detector)	specsAnalyser	Release Notes	Stuart Wilkins	Active?

Detectors located outside of Github areaDetector Project

The following table provides links to the Github repository, the documentation, release notes, name of maintainer, and repository status.

Github repository	Description	Documentation	Release Notes	Primary maintainer	Status
ADTucsen	Driver for cameras from Tucsen	None	None	David Vine	Active?
ADXpad	Driver for cameras from ImXPAD	None	None	ImXPAD	Active?