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ATS9353 User Manual
The AlazarTech software components used to communicate with digitizer boards
and make acquisitions are divided into several packages. You’ll need to install
the following:
•
libats
: The shared library that allows user programs to communicate with
the board drivers.
•
ats-devel
: Contains header files, documentation, and code samples required
to build software that links against the AlazarTech library.
•
alazar-front-panel
: A GTK-based virtual oscilloscope application that
allows users to get started using the boards without developing their own
software.
•
driver packages
: These packages each contain the driver for one of
AlazarTech's products.
The exact name on disk of a given package file depends on the computer
architecture for which it is built, the Linux distribution used, and the actual
software version. For example, the driver for ATS9353 version 7.1.2 built for
the “x86_64” architecture on CentOS is contained in the
“drivers-ats9353-dkms-7.1.2.x86_64.rpm” file.
Note:
Beginning with driver version 7.1.2, AlazarTech Linux drivers use DKMS to not be
dependent on the exact kernel version that the host machine is running.