LinoSPAD support

Follow this link for LinoSPAD2. (The original LinoSPAD is also supported by the new software/firmware.)

General documentation

Camera factsheet

Quickstart manual

Software manual

Mainboard manual

Current software

Changelog: - Support independent acquisition window synchronization control in TDC acquisition tab.

Software (8.3MB .zip, version 20171018)

Previous versions

Changelog:

• Added parameters for command line operation:
• -s “settingsFile” : loads a specific settings file
• -r “resultsFile” : runs 1 acquisition, saves results to file and terminates
• -h : display help
• -v : display version

Software (8.2MB .zip, version 20170427)

• Acquisition cycles now refer to number of cycles over all active pixels (I.e. for default operation it needs to be divided by 4.)
• Support pixel masking and asymmetric clock output depending on detected firmware version

Software (8.2MB .zip, version 20170105)

• Inital release

Software (8.5MB .zip, version 20160401)

Current firmware

To program the SPI flash PROM with Xilinx Impact 14.7, use the .mcs file and select the S25FL128S, data width 4.

Changes from previous version:

• Acquisition window synchronization is now independent from timestamp reset signal

FPGA image (.bit) (1.2MB .zip, version 20150724)

SPI flash image (.mcs) (2.4MB .zip, version 20150724)

Previous versions

Changelog:

• Add pixel masking functionality
• Add asymmetric clock output functionality
• Prepare support for self-update

FPGA image (.bit) (1.2MB .zip, version 20150723)

SPI flash image (.mcs) (2.4MB .zip, version 20150723)

• Inital release

FPGA image (.bit) (1.2MB .zip, version 20150722)

SPI flash image (.mcs) (2.4MB .zip, version 20150722)

Errata

December 2016: Flipped pixels

Publications

- S. Burri, C. Bruschini, and E. Charbon:
“LinoSPAD: A Compact Linear SPAD Camera System with 64 FPGA-Based TDC Modules for Versatile 50 ps Resolution Time-Resolved Imaging,”
Instruments 2017, 1(1), 6; doi:10.3390/instruments1010006.

- S. Burri, H. Homulle, C. Bruschini, and E. Charbon:
“LinoSPAD: a time-resolved 256 x 1 CMOS SPAD line sensor system featuring 64 FPGA-based TDC channels running at up to 8.5 giga-events per second,”
Proc. SPIE, Optical Sensing and Detection IV, vol. 9899, 2016.