AvaSoft-BASIC & FULL
AvaSoft spectrometer software is available in 2 versions, the basic and full version.
Basic
AvaSoft-BASIC is the standard software package that is supplied with each AvaSpec spectrometer system free of charge. AvaSoft-BASIC features user friendly, mouse oriented pull down menus. Mouse clicks control movements of a data cursor for instantaneous readout of wavelength, pixel and y-axis magnitude. Mouse dragging is a fast and elegant way to zoom in on both x and y directions at the same time.
Buttons in the main window are available for on-line/off-line spectral analysis (start/stop) and for easy saving of reference, dark and experiment spectra. Additional buttons are available for printing, changing the view to absorbance, transmittance, irradiance or raw scope data, rescaling the y-axis, set scale for x and y axis and peak/valley searching.
The user sets the data collection parameters, such as detector integration time, auto-dark correction, signal averaging and spectral smoothing in common dialog boxes. The saved graphical data can be exported to ASCII, to be read in by Excel and other data processing programs.
New features in AvaSoft-7.0 BASIC are the support of the AvaSpec-USB2 platform, multiple USB functionality, and new filesave and display options.
The most recent version of the AvaSoft-BASIC software can be downloaded from the Avantes website. If an upgrade to AvaSoft-FULL is desired, please contact us for upgrade ordering information.
Full
The AvaSoft-FULL version needs to be ordered separately and has a lot of additional features (see table below) over the basic version. We strongly recommend to check the Avantes website regularly for the newest upgrade.
In the table below, the options are summarised for the BASIC and FULL version of AvaSoft 7.0. The most important features of the AvaSoft 7.0 are the support for the new AvaSpec-USB2 platform, which includes....
- Simultaneous, synchronised measurements with a variety of differently configured spectrometers.
- Different integration times or averaging setting per channel whilst still starting each scan simultaneously for all synchronised channels.
- Different detector types, such as UV/VIS and NIR detectors possible to cover a wide wavelength range with one spectrometer system.
Differences between AvaSoft-BASIC & FULL
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Editable data collection parameters per channel, such as detector integration time, auto-dark correction, signal averaging, spline interpolation and spectral smoothing |
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Display data in scope, transmittance, absorbance or relative irradiance mode. Multiple spectrometer channels are displayed in the same graph, optional grid display |
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Zoom, (Auto)scale and panning functions to expand quickly an interesting part of the spectrum (both X and Y axis) to the full screen |
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Mouse drag controls movement of a data cursor for instantaneous readout of wavelength and yaxis magnitude. Peakfinder for moving cursor to nearest peak fast |
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Save spectra, and display online measurements against (multiple) saved spectra backgrounds. Print (multiple) spectra in colour. Convert saved spectra to ASCII format in equidistance (nm) with start wavelength in nm |
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Help menu option to find a description about any AvaSoft topic quickly |
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History Channel Application, in which the output of (up to 8) user defined functions, integrals, peaks (intensity, wavelength) can be followed simultaneously against time. Functions can be entered in Visual-Basic script. Time series measurements can be saved/loaded and printed. Zoom and panning functions can be applied to quickly expand an interesting part of the time series measurement to the full screen |
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Auto Wavelength Calibration. In combination with a Mercury-Argon Light Source, a number of peaks can be detected automatically. These peaks are then compared with the wavelengths where they should have been detected, and a regression fit is performed to calculate the best wavelength calibration coefficients |
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Correct for drift. If a master and one or more slave channel of about the same wavelength range are available, one of the channels can be used to correct the other channel data for changes in the light source. This option also works for the FOS-2-inline to correct for one channel spectrometer temperature fluctuations |
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Automatic save spectra periodically (save a spectrum every x seconds) |
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External Trigger control to acquire (and save) spectral data only if a TTL signal is presented to a connector on the spectrometer. Also supports the AvaSpec-2048FT (Fast trigger) and USB2 platform with optional integration time delay settings |
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Convert spectra to J-CAMP format for further data processing e.g. in GRAMS32 |
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Full Width Half Max calculations, online or on saved spectra. Graphically displayed |
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Integral calculations, online or on saved spectra, graphically displayed |
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Autoconfigure integration time - AvaSoft searches for an optimal integration time |
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Automatic Save Dark by TTL shutter. |
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Autodetect saturated pixels in a spectrum, optionally autocorrect inverted saturated pixels, optionally visualize saturated pixels and log saturated wavelength regions in time series. |
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LIBS application (USB2 platform |
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Custom made modifications are possible, please contact us for details.
Ordering Information
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Part Number |
Description |
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AvaSoft-FULL |
Full version Spectrometer software for Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP/Vista |
