Debian Science Data acquisition packages

The following tools are available as part of the filo package:

groupBy – mimics the “groupBy” clause in database systems.

shuffle – randomize the order of lines in a file.

stats – computes descriptive statistic on a given column of a tab-delimited file or stream.

Because their name is too generic, ‘shuffle’ and ‘stats’ are relocated in /usr/lib/filo.

A digital multimeter (DMM) attached to the serial port is presented under a Qt surface. The tool plots values over time, has a simple scheduler for delayed starts and logging after a threshold was reached. It supports spawning external applications, too.

EPICS is a set of Open Source software tools, libraries and applications developed collaboratively and used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems for scientific instruments such as a particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments.

The RT-Preempt (http://rt.wiki.kernel.org) project provides patches to make Linux kernel capable of fulfilling hard realtime requirements. The aim is to eliminate all preemptivity and reactivity problems in the kernel over the time by adding deterministic preemption points. The -rt patches are constantly being worked on for mainline by the community.

Pengutronix's Realtime Linux for Debian project provides builds of the stock Linux kernel with the RT-Preempt patch (but without Debian patches).

MX is a data acquisition and control system that is designed to serve several functions:

• As a portable toolkit for writing data acquisition and control programs.
• As a standalone system capable of controlling entire experiments.
• As a platform for building device control servers to be used by other applications.
• As a way of extending other control systems and of glueing disparate control systems together.

OPeNDAP is a framework that simplifies all aspects of scientific data networking.

OPeNDAP provides software which makes local data accessible to remote locations regardless of local storage format.

OPeNDAP also provides tools for transforming existing applications into OPeNDAP clients (i.e., enabling them to remotely access OPeNDAP served data).

 The HART (Hardware Access in Real-Time) Toolbox can be used to
 generate Scicos-blocks for hardware that have a C/C++ interface. The
 blocks can be used under Linux for soft and hard real time tasks
 (RTAI). Blocks are provided for DAQ (COMEDI)

An easy to use Java program that allows you to digitize data points off of scanned plots, scaled drawings, or orthographic photographs. Includes an automatic digitization feature that can automatically digitize many types of functional data.