| General Manuals |
| Instrument Design Specifications
| Hardware and software specifications and requirements for instruments. All 3rd party development must conform to the specifications defined in this document. |
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| Software Development
| Please read and understand this document carefully before
doing any "file management" operations in the CFHT
source trees. It describes proper use of RCS,
how to make backups, and gives a few tips to help
stay organized when developing a project. |
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| FITS Guidelines
| Here are some proposed guidelines for manipulating
basic and multi-extension FITS files. See also libfh, below. |
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| Make.Common
| How to include and use Make.Common in project Makefiles |
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| Make.56K
| How to include and use Make.56K in DSP code Makefiles |
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| DSP Code Symbols
| Assembler symbols and label names to use in your DSP
code (this is the interface between the DSP code and
"DetCom". Even DSP code generated for "DetI" should
be changed to include these symbols now, even though
it will ignore them.) |
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| Utility "roll"
| Utility for viewing cfht_log files. |
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| Other man pages
| Search other documentation in "man page" format |
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| NEO Manuals and Documents |
| CFHT Data Acquisition
| Description of the target of hardware and software used
to acquire data at CFHT.
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| Status Server
| CFHT Status Server documentation (includes client API)
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| Director Version 3
| Describes the functions of the Director feedback window
and covers guidelines for creating CLI programs that run as Agents.
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| libcli
| This is part of the Director documentation
Libcli is a library used for building Agents.
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| DetCom Detector Interface
| The command-line detector control interface for UH8K, CFH12K,
MegaCam, CFHTIR, KIR, and other SDSU detectors at CFHT.
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| libsockio
| Library for creating single-threaded socket servers and clients.
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| libfh
| New C FITS handling routines, including support for MEF.
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| libcfht
| Widely used C functions for handling
par files, signals, logging messages, and more.
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| libCFHT++
| A similar collection of functions but in C++ (currently
used by RPM and par2env).
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| SPIRou High-Level Control Software Preliminary Design
| Preliminary Design for SPIRou instrument control and data acquisition.
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| SPIRou Tip/Tilt Guiding and Viewing Software Infrastructure Final Design
| Final Design of the SPIRou tip/tilt guiding and viewing software infrastructure.
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| MegaCam Software
| We're attempting to collect all relevant software manuals
and notes for Megacam on this page.
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| HForm
| HTML GUI Builder. If you're familiar with creating HTML documents,
especially HTML Forms, this manual should be all you need to start
creating HForm documents for the RPM Web Server.
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| RPM Web Server
| Version 2.0 of the Web Server. Documentation for the HTTP server itself.
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| SPIRou Software Design Documents |
| SPIRou High-Level Control Software Preliminary Design
| Preliminary Design for SPIRou instrument control and data acquisition.
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| SPIRou Tip/Tilt Guiding and Viewing Software Infrastructure Final Design
| Final Design of the SPIRou tip/tilt guiding and viewing software infrastructure.
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| MSE Software Design Documents |
| SPIE Paper
| Overview of the proposed software for MSE.
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| Linux Device Drivers |
| sspci
| Linux 2.2.x and 2.4.x Kernel Driver for S-Link PCI receiver cards. RTAI Real-Time Linux support is also included.
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| lotuspci
| Linux 2.2.x and 2.4.x Kernel Driver for SDSU2 PCI fiber cards.
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CFHT Software Index