Winview/32 Software User's Manual
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4411-0046 Version 2.6.A January 31, 2012 *4411-0046* Copyright 2001-2012 Princeton Instruments, a division of Roper Scientific, Inc. 3660 Quakerbridge Rd Trenton, NJ 08619 TEL: 800-874-9789/609-587-9797 FAX: 609-587-1970 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without the written permission of Princeton Instruments, a division of Roper Scientific, Inc. ("Princeton Instruments"). Printed in the United States of America. Adobe, Acrobat, Photoshop, and Reader are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Cascade, PI-MAX, PIoNIR, and PyLoN are registered trademarks of Roper Scientific, Inc. InSpectrum is a trademark of Acton Research Corporation. Jasc and Paint Shop Pro are registered trademarks of Jasc Software, Inc. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. PVCAM is a registered trademark of Photometrics Ltd. 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Table of Contents Part 1 Getting Started.................................................... 13 Introduction.........................................................................................................15 Summary of Chapter Information ..................................................................................... 15 Part 1, Getting Started ................................................................................................ 15 Part 2, Advanced Topics ............................................................................................ 16 Part 3, Reference ........................................................................................................ 17 Online Help ....................................................................................................................... 17 Tool Tips and Status Bar Messages .................................................................................. 17 Additional Documentation................................................................................................ 18 Chapter 1 Installing and Starting WinView/32 .................................................19 System Requirements ....................................................................................................... 19 Hardware Requirements ............................................................................................. 19 Operating System Requirements ................................................................................ 21 Your System Components ................................................................................................ 21 Installing the PCI Card Driver .......................................................................................... 23 Installing the USB 2.0 Card Driver .................................................................................. 23 WinView Version 2.5.25 and later............................................................................. 24 Installing the FireWire Card Driver .................................................................................. 24 Installing the GigE Ethernet Card Driver ......................................................................... 24 Installing WinView/32...................................................................................................... 25 Installing from the CD ................................................................................................ 26 Installing from the FTP Site ....................................................................................... 26 Custom Installation Choices ...................................................................................... 27 Changing Installed Components, Repairing, or Uninstalling/Reinstalling WinView/32 . 27 Starting WinView/32 ........................................................................................................ 28 Chapter 2 Basic Hardware Setup ......................................................................31 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 31 Basic Hardware Overview ................................................................................................ 31 Entering the Default Camera System Parameters into WinView ..................................... 33 Camera Detection Wizard .......................................................................................... 33 Entering Controller and Detector Characteristics............................................................. 37 Entering the Data Orientation ........................................................................................... 41 Entering the Interface Communication Parameters .......................................................... 42 Entering the Cleans/Skips Characteristics ........................................................................ 43 Chapter 3 Initial Data Collection .......................................................................47 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 47 Temperature Control ......................................................................................................... 48 Cleans and Skips ............................................................................................................... 49 Experiment Setup Procedure (All Controllers and Unintensified Cameras) .................... 49 Experiment Setup Procedures (Intensified Cameras) ....................................................... 52 iii iv WinView/32 Manual Version 2.6.A Data Collection Procedures (Intensified Cameras) .......................................................... 53 Data Collection Procedures (Controller-Specific) ............................................................ 53 ST-133-Controller ...................................................................................................... 53 PentaMAX Controller ................................................................................................ 55 Data Collection (Unintensified Cameras)......................................................................... 57 Chapter 4 Opening, Closing, and Saving Data Files .......................................59 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 59 Opening Data Files ........................................................................................................... 59 Saving Data Files .............................................................................................................. 62 Saving Temporary Data Files ..................................................................................... 62 Data File tab ............................................................................................................... 63 Closing a Data File ........................................................................................................... 63 Deleting Data Files ........................................................................................................... 64 Chapter 5 Displaying the Data...........................................................................65 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 65 Screen Refresh Rate .......................................................................................................... 66 Data Displayed as an Image .............................................................................................. 66 Displaying CIRCUIT.SPE .......................................................................................... 66 Changing the Brightness Range ................................................................................. 67 Brightness/Contrast Control ....................................................................................... 67 Selecting a Region of Interest .................................................................................... 68 Data Window Context menu ............................................................................................ 69 Labeling Images and Graphs ............................................................................................ 69 Data Displayed as a 3D Graph .......................................................................................... 72 Displaying Hid-lamp.spe ............................................................................................ 73 5%-95% Display Range ............................................................................................. 75 Selecting a Region of Interest .................................................................................... 76 Information box .......................................................................................................... 77 Displaying