Motor Controls
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The main tuning software for our systems. It provides automated tuning to a specified wavelength/wavenumber as well as individual control of the optical elements. Many of our customers use LabVIEW for their experiments, and the external communication options in Motor Controls allow for existing experiment software to control the system over TCP/UDP and RS-232.
Previously known as MDrive, the software has recently been rewritten to be work with Windows XP SP2 and higher and is now called Motor Controls. If you are interested in upgrading your system please contact us for assistance.
Version History
The following is a list of program versions and a description of the major change between each. Many releases fix minor bugs or include small code improvements. For a complete list of changes please see the release notes.
- 3.2.1.0(February 8, 2012)A bug-fix release of 3.2.0.0.
- 3.2.0.0(January 9, 2012)Major changes include the ability to generate fitting files from calibration data within the program as well as the ability to view the currently active fits. Additionally, the cubic spline formula has been updated to produce more accurate curves.
- 3.1.0.0(September 13, 2011)Released as an installer package. Contains a large number of changes, including a demo mode, program settings dialog, and important bug fixes.
- 3.0.4.2b(June 8, 2011)Source diagrams for the LabVIEW Ethernet sample .vi's are now provided.
- 3.0.4.2(March 24, 2011)Corrected two serious errors in the cubic-spline fitting routine.
- 3.0.4.1(February 21, 2011)Program is restricted to running only one instance.
- 3.0.4.0(February 4, 2011)Introduced ability to control motor positions while scanning in wavelength using a cubic-spline fit of datapoints, providing improved control of motor #2.
- 3.0.3.0(December 20, 2010)Additional external commands have been added: MOVE, STOP, TELLPOS, and SETSCRL.
- 3.0.2.1(November 11, 2010)Further improvements of Ethernet communications.
- 3.0.2.0(November 7, 2010)Now possible to send more than one system command as a single Ethernet command.
- 3.0.1.0(October 28, 2010)Added ability to add offset from 1064nm.
- 3.0.0.0(October 20, 2010)First release supporting 32-bit Windows.