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Subject: RE: Off topic: AMPTEK radio silence
From: Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <[email protected]>
To: Graeme Winter <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 18:16:37 +0000
Hi Graeme,

I don't know anything about what might be happening with Amptek.  However, on a related topic that might be of interest to you I am finishing an EPICS driver for the Ketek AXAS/DPP3 SDD detectors.  
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.ketek.net/products/complete-systems/axas-3-0/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!c5JrqQkL3TlgT_akISD3j4kmOvTX3lzKHQHdk6vUIduQ8V9AQ4O29CFS1sZu4vzNuhiyem9KBo5PtQAHOCSLIjbuh84$ 

These have on-board digital pulse processing electronics, and support a hardware triggered "mapping mode" where it can stream up to 160 spectra/second.  My driver is based on asynNDArrayDriver from areaDetector, so you can stream the data using HDF5 plugin, for example.

The software is basically done, and I am working on the documentation.
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/epics-modules/ketek__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!c5JrqQkL3TlgT_akISD3j4kmOvTX3lzKHQHdk6vUIduQ8V9AQ4O29CFS1sZu4vzNuhiyem9KBo5PtQAHOCSLkfybQjc$ 

Cheers,
Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: Tech-talk <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Graeme Winter via Tech-talk
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 12:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Off topic: AMPTEK radio silence

Off topic but probably a good place to ask

Some of us over at sector 24 have been trying to get hold of amptek over the last couple of weeks to chat about SDDs but to no avail, even reaching for the … telephone failed to evoke a response on a couple of occasions

Anyone got any insight?

Thanks Graeme

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Off topic: AMPTEK radio silence Graeme Winter via Tech-talk

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