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Built-in code to regulate motor controllers and detection

electronics using USB, VME, CAMAC, GPIB, RS-232, PC-board and ethernet-socket

interfaces.

Generalized access for VME, CAMAC, GPIB, RS-232, PC I/O ports

and socket I/O to read from and write to user devices.

Support for EPICS, TACO and TANGO distributed real-time instrument

control systems.

Server mode for remote operation from spec clients or third

party clients.

Sophisticated user interface with command interpreter, complete

with variables, looping and flow control, allowing for creative

experiment automation.

Language uses a familiar C-like syntax.

A command-file facility allows complicated or commonly used

command sequences to be immediately called up.

An easy-to-use macro facility, with a large library of predefined

macros. Macros can be readily modified with any text editor to

suit experiments.

Scans, data-file formats, etc. are not built into the compiled

program but defined as easily modified macros.

High-resolution, real-time data plots.

Macro libraries and geometry-calculation routines support two-,

four-, five- and six-circle diffractometers, kappa diffractometers,

many liquid surface X-ray diffractometers and other configurations.

The standard four-circle diffractometer supports many advanced

modes and includes features such as least-squares refinement of

the lattice parameters. New geometry configurations can be created.

Hardware configuration employs a spread-sheet-style interface

to select device names, addresses, motor parameters, etc.

Security features let site administrators restrict access to

particular motors (such as those at a synchrotron beam-line front

end).

Available for Linux, Sun Solaris and Mac OS X.