Thorlabs Single Photon Counter Module - SPCM and SPCM Series VXIpnp Instrument Driver – Readme

Thorlabs Single Photon Counter Module - SPCM

SPCM is the Thorlabs S-ingle and P-hoton C-ounter M-odule application which allows operating all Thorlabs single photon counter modules.

Note:
This software comes with additional software packages:
	- NI VISA runtime engine (http://www.ni.com/visa)
	- Ni LW/CVI runtime engine (http://www.ni.com/cvi)
	- For full functionality it is recommended to use USB 2.0 interfaces.

License:
The Thorlabs SPCM software is copyright Ó 2010-2011, Thorlabs GmbH. For license details please see file Thorlabs_License.rtf in the applications installation directory.

Important Note 
It is strongly recommended to uninstall earlier versions of drivers for SPCM-Series, as well as earlier versions of SPCM prior to installing this software.

Supported platforms:
This software was verified with the following platforms:
	- Windows XP + SP3 (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista x64 Edition (64-bit version)
	- Windows 7 (32-bit version)
	- Windows 7 x64 Edition (64-bit version)

SPCM Application changelog:
Aug-04-2011 	Initial release V1.0.2

Thorlabs SPCM Series VXIpnp Instrument Driver
This instrument driver module provides programming support for Thorlabs SPCM_xxA series instruments.
The driver installs to into your system's VXIpnp directory. This is typically 'C:\Program Files\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT' or '\C:\VXIPNP\WinNT'.
The instrument driver package was created with National Instruments LabWindows/CVI 10.0.0. The LabVIEW version of this driver was generated with LabVIEW Interface Generator for LabWindows/CVI Instrument Drivers 1.2 in conjunction with LabVIEW 8.6. The .NET managed library was generated by the National Instruments Measurement Studio plug-in for Visual Studio.NET 2008.

Important Note:
This software needs a NI-VISA engine to be installed on the target system. You may download a VISA engine from http://www.ni.com/visa.

Copyright:
This software is copyright Ó 2011, Thorlabs GmbH

License:
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Programming Examples:
This driver comes with a set of programming examples. These are installed in the <Driver directory>\samples\ directory.
NI-LabVIEW sample: The program was generated using NI-LabVIEW 2009.
NI-LabWindows/CVI sample: The program was generated using NI-LW/CVI 10.0.0.
C language sample: The program was generated using the Open Watcom IDE V1.8. See http://www.openwatcom.org/ for details
C++ sample: The program was generated using the MS-Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition IDE
C# sample: The program was generated using the MS-Visual Studio 2008 IDE

Supported platforms:
This software was verified with the following platforms:
	- Windows XP * SP3 (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista x64 Edition (64-bit version)
	- Windows 7 (32-bit version)
	- Windows 7 x64 Edition (64-bit version)

SPCM Series VXIpnp Instrument Driver Changelog:
Mar-24-2011	Release V0.5.1
Mar-31-2011	Release V0.5.3
Jun-08-2011  Release V0.8.8
Jul-27-2011  Release V1.0.0
Jul-28-2011  Release V1.0.1