A simple controller for bidimensional image detectors

摘要

The increasing use of many and different kind of light detectors to acquire, monitor and control variousaspects of the observation imposes the need to standardize the acquisition and processing of images and data. Whilescientific image acquisition systems usually include a complex controller, some less demanding subsystems requirethe development of electronics and software to read the image. Most of the times these image detectors are rathersmall and high speed is of no concern, so controllers need not to be fast; take for instance a telescope guider. Withthese directives in mind, in this work we present a very simple image acquisition system based on a TexasInstruments microcontroller of the family MSP430 and a serial static memory as a standard instrumentation startingfor small image acquisition controllers.© (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.