Downloads for Users:

The following utilities are available for download by users:

1. The Status Display Launcher:  

This allows a user to view the current status of the spectrometer(s).

Detailed information about the use of this program can be found here.  

                    To install the launcher:
                               -Windows NT/2000/XP users can download the self-extracting executable, statuslaunch.exe.
                               -Mac OS 10.x users can download the following stuffit file, statuslaunch.sit.

2. Graffiti:  

                    This program allows the user to download data to his/her own computer and browse through the scans in the experiment.  
                    It also allows combining data sets, angle calculations, spurion checks, etc. 

                    Windows NT/2000/XP users can download the self-extracting executable, graffiti.exe.


3. Documentation: 

                    Users of Windows NT/2000/XP can download all the documentation for SPICE in the form of a Windows help file by clicking here.

4. SPICE - Virtual Triple-Axis-Spectrometer:

We have put together a full version of SPICE which users can run on their own computer to become familiar with the commands and user interface.  This program is designed to closely match the actual operation of the triple-axis spectrometer.

There are 2 steps to the installation of the virtual triple-axis software:

1. Installing the prerequisite programs:

The full operation of the SPICE executable requires the installation of 3 external programs:

(a) The National Instruments run-time engine - LVRunTimeEng.exe
NOTE: this can also be downloaded directly from National Instruments

(b) Python 2.3 - Python-2.3.3.exe
The latest version of Python can be downloaded from http://www.python.org

(c) The Python Windows extensions - win32all-163.exe

2. Installing SPICE:

The executable, code, and configuration files needed to run the SPICE virtual triple-axis spectrometer have been compiled into a self-extracting executable, Virtual_Spice.exe.
Download and run this self-extracting executable.  The first step in the installation will be the confirmation of the prerequisite software described in step 1 above.  Note that the installation will not proceed until all the necessary software is installed on your computer.  The installer will setup and configure SPICE in the 'c:\program files\spice' directory.

NOTE: The Virtual_Spice.exe file is a large download (approximately 50 Mb)

5. Loaders for SPICE data files:

(a) MATLAB:

The following 2 files provide a method for loading SPICE data into MATLAB:

spiceload.m
spicedata.m

Copy these 2 files into you working directory or some location in the MATLAB path.

Usage:

[x, y, err, monitor, xlab, ylab]=spiceload(filespec)

where filespec has the form:

'filename,<x column name>,<y column name>,<Monitor name>,<Normalization factor>'

Examples:

[x, y, err, monitor, xlab, ylab]=spiceload('HB1_exp0058_scan0012.dat')            
            Loads the specified file with defaults

[x, y, err, monitor, xlab, ylab]=spiceload('HB1_exp0058_scan0013.dat,default,default,monitor,20000')
            Loads the specified file with x and y as defaults normalized to 20000 monitor counts       

[x, y, err, monitor, xlab, ylab]=spiceload('HB1_exp0058_scan0010.dat,e,detector,monitor,400000')
            Loads the specified file with x=e, y=detector normalized to 400000 monitor counts

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