Software Progress Report - September 2010

AO Supervisor

• More tests on the new structure of diagnostic software.
• More enhancements to base supervisor libraries.
• Small fixes to MsgD.
• All AO Arbitrator variables have been revised.
• Process startup procedures revised, again.
• Communication paths in MsgD have been revised to allow the "clustering" of MsgD copies and the definition of "domains".
• Small modification to base libraries needed for the above enhancements. No changes to API, anyway.

• Many spare bug fixes as a result of testing at the telescope.

AdSec Software

• The IDL controller interface has been enhanced by adding an RPC based mechanism.
• Some revisions to the low level IDL scripts.
• The IDL license check procedure has been revised.
• Enhancements to the AdSec Arbitrator.
• Continued the revision of configuration file structure.
• Low level "flattening" procedures revised.
• More enhancements to engineering GUI.

WFS Software

• WFS configuration splitted to allow two versions of WFS to be operated concurrently.
• The support for switching input in the "switchBCU" and to direct diagfnostic data to the proper WFS controller has been added (needed for LBTI support)
• The modified code and configuration has been tested.
• Various minor upgrades to procedures and GUIs.

AOS

• Some enhancements to aoslib and to the related test program.
• Added the support for an emulator environment to perform off-line tests of AOS functionality.
• Some new features retrofitted in AO5 build. This was necessary to allow AO5 buid to operate with nthe new version of AO Supervisor.
• Fixed a bug which prevented the SetNewInstrument command to operate properly. This was applied to BP3 and trunk versions, too.
• Telemetry support code revised.
• More work on the testing emulator.
• Updated AO supervisor library.
• The prelimirary support of multiple WFS has been added (required to support LBTI operations)
• A bug was fixed in offload modes procedure.

Miscellaneous

• Some enhancements to test programs.
• Some enhancements to Interferometer data analysis procedures.
• Another small enhtancement to the make procedure.
• The main test program (thrdtest) modified to properly support the Ao Arbitrator emulating environment (see AOS).
• Upgraded elab-lib