RE: GigE Vision & GeniCam standard SDK (areaDetector)

[Ahed Aladwan <Ahed.Aladwan@synchrotron.org.au>]

Lewis, that is exactly the plan, here I am only talking about layer 2 (Device Driver) of the areaDetector, no need to reinvent the wheel at other layers.

Ahed


-----Original Message-----
From: J. Lewis Muir [mailto:jlmuir@imca-cat.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2012 12:35 AM
To: Ahed Aladwan
Cc: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: GigE Vision & GeniCam standard SDK (areaDetector)

On 9/11/12 12:33 AM, Ahed Aladwan wrote:
> Hello TechTalk,
> 
> We are standardizing EPICS (3.14.12.1) interface to GigE Vision & GeniCam standards compliant devices, mainly detectors, cameras, and other devices too as part of the areaDetector (1.8) module.
> The goal is to find a suitable SDK that support Linux (CentOS 6.3) & Windows 32/64 bit versions, thus, minimize the effort integrating new devices and improve cross compatibility.

Hi, Ahed.

Why not let areaDetector be your "SDK"?  In other words, why not standardize on the API areaDetector presents?  Then you can use any camera that areaDetector supports.  You don't do anything with SDKs or libraries areaDetector may use under the hood to interface with the cameras; all you use is the areaDetector API.
 Or am I not understanding what you're trying to do?

Lewis