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Real-time Software

Explore the CentOS-based GONG H-alpha Review Platform for seamless development, analysis, and application in real-time imaging. Discover the advanced tools, drivers, and applications tailored for efficient astronomy research.

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Real-time Software

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  1. Real-time Software

  2. Outline • Platform • Development Tools • Applications • Analysis • Summary GONG H-alpha Review

  3. Platform • CentOS version 5.3 • Equivalent to Red Hat Enterprise but FREE • Easy to Install and Apply Updates • Chose GNOME Desktop for ease of GTK support • Caveats: • Had to use 32-bit NON-PAE (Physical Address Extensions) version of CentOS due to Camera’s limited Linux driver support. • 64-bit versions of the drivers are “on their way” GONG H-alpha Review

  4. Platform - continued • Drivers… • Model 4000AM-CL DVC (Digital Video Co.) Camera plus EDT (Engineering Design Team) Pro Camera-Link interface card drivers • Good set of examples for using camera interface • Decent technical support • Model TSYNC PCIe Precision Timing Board drivers • Rich support for various Operating Systems • Ease of interfacing to driver • Great, proactive, technical support GONG H-alpha Review

  5. Development Tools • Eclipse Galileo Version (v3.5) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) • Subversive v2.0 Plug-in • GTK+ version 2.12 • IRAF version 2.14 • SAO Image / DS9 • Subversion 1.4.0 (version control software) • GCC v4.1.2 GONG H-alpha Review

  6. Development Tools - cont’d • OpenJPEG v1.3 (JPEG 2000 open source) • Created JPACK / JUNPACK (FITS to J2K) • CFITSIO (FITS file support) • TCL/TK v8.4 • BLT v2.4z (Graphical TK widgets) • GLADE v2.12.1 (Window Prototyping) • RSYNC v2.6.8 (Secured File Transfers) • 1024-bit encryption GONG H-alpha Review

  7. Applications • Design considerations... • Targets an Object Oriented approach: • Applications compiled as C++ executables • Provide wrappers around C - based Camera and Timing Board driver functions • Shared Memory and Inter-Process Communication (IPC) for future enhancements (i.e. Real-Time Linux). • GUI based interface (CamVIEW) for Preventative Maintenance Team Support. GONG H-alpha Review

  8. Applications - cont’d • Ha Suite… • The Core set of applications/tasks: • Frame Grabber (haCamera) • Communicates w/ DVC Camera • Clock Task (haClock) • Generates Interrupt Based Signal for Camera Snapshot • Image Processor (haProcessImage) • Dark, Flat-Field, Normalize, Compress, SSH Image • Instrument State (haInstComm) • TCL/TK communication to query Instrument Computer • CamVIEW (in-house developed package) • Graphical Management Utility GONG H-alpha Review

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  13. Analysis • Compression • Analyzed various compression techniques, so far the front-runner being JPEG 2000 (next being FPACK) • Created custom utilities (JPACK/JUNPACK) • Best compression is 1.5Mbytes w/ noise of ~6 ADU (Analog to Digital Units) which is better than the camera noise. • Timing • System at Tucson Farm takes ~ 7 seconds of processing before pushing the image to DMAC • 2 seconds for Image Capture + 2 seconds for Darks/Flats + 3 seconds for Compression. GONG H-alpha Review

  14. Summary • Status... • One remaining issue is finding an adequate tradeoff between compression scheme versus bandwidth requirements. • Overall development environment stable with minimal issues. The hard part of finding the right combo of O.S., drivers, and hardware is now behind us. • Future Plans... • 64-Bit Operating System upgrade • Depends upon Camera and Clock Driver availability from vendors. • Real-Time Linux • Better compression techniques / tools • Improved site bandwidth • Transfer of archived image data from sites to Tucson (i.e. Tape Drives) • Demo… GONG H-alpha Review

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