Dectris EIGER 2 - Software; Overview of SIMPLON; HDF5 File Format and ALBULA Image Viewer

3.3. Software
3.3.1. Overview of SIMPLON
The EIGER2 detector system is controlled via the SIMPLON API, which relies on a http/REST interface. The API
Reference is provided as a separate document ”SIMPLON API Reference”.
The detector’s web interface (chapter 6) gives access to fundamental settings and status parameters and also
enables a rst test to see if the detector system has been set up properly (after installation and startup as
described in chapters 4 and 5).
3.3.2. HDF5 le format and ALBULA image viewer
The EIGER2 detector writes images in the HDF5 le format ( chapter 10). DECTRIS
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provides the image viewer
ALBULA, which is able to handle the HDF5 images, with the primary aim to display them. ALBULA is available
free of charge at www.dectris.com. The ALBULA Python API allows to handle HDF5 les and perform arithmetic
operations on image data as well as basic analysis. Furthermore, the API enables seamless integration of the
viewer into user-specic infrastructure. More information on HDF5 and ALBULA is given in chapter 10.
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