Cicero Word Generator
Intuitive exprimental control software for atomic physics experiments.


Key Features:

• Control of National Instruments cards providing analog and digital outputs, using an intuitive graphical user interface.
• Control of other devices via RS232 ("serial") and GPIB commands.
• 1 - 2 microsecond time resolution on 60s long sequences, through use of variable frequency sample clocks to reduce buffer sizes.
• Client / Server architecture, separation of UI program from hardware output program, allowing scaling to arbitrary numbers of output channels.
• Batch processing, variable scanning, and run logging allow for automated data collection while eliminating tedious work.

Curious? Take a look at some screenshots.
For more information, read the Technical and User's Manual.

If you still have further questions, please join the Cicero Word Generator Users mailing list.
Download compiled software: Cicero-Word-Generator-1.64rev7.zip (20 MB).
Source code available at Cicero Word Generator github page.
This work was undertaken at the MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, as a part of the Laboratory of Wolfgang Ketterle.

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License and copyright information:

Copyright (C) 2008 Aviv Keshet
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).