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Hardware Support Comparison

Device

Micro-Manager

Meta Imaging (Molecular Devices)

AA AOTF - AOTF controller from AA Optoelectronics

Yes

No

ABSCamera - Cameras from ABS Gesellschaft für Automatisierung, Bildverarbeitung, Software GmbH Jena

Yes

No

Acton Research - MicroSpec 2150i

No

Yes

AgilentLaserCombiner - Agilent MLC

Yes

No

Aladdin - Syring pump controller from Aladdin

Yes

No

Andor - Andor cameras

Yes

Yes

Andor3 - New model Andor cameras

Yes

?

AndorLaserCombiner - Andor laser launch

Yes

Yes

Asahi Spectra MAX-301

No

Yes

Aura Light Engine

No

Yes

AOTF - NEOS AOTF control through parallel port. Can be used for any TTL-controllable shutter

Yes

No

Apogee - Apogee cameras

Yes

No

Aquinas - Aquinas Microfluidics Controller

Yes

No

Arduino - Open Source Programmable Digital/Analogue IO board

Yes

No

ASIFW1000 - ASI Shutter and Filter Wheel controller

Yes

Yes

ASIStage - ASI XY (and Z) stage and CRIF

Yes

Yes

ASIwptr - ASI well-plate transfer robot

Yes

No

BaumerOptronic - Leica DFC camera (through BaumerOptronic FXLib)

Yes

Yes

Cairn Research - Optoscan

No

Yes

Cairn Research - Rotor

No

Yes

CARVII - BD/CrEST CARV II spinning disk confocal

Yes

Yes

CARV LX

No

Yes

Cell Robotics Stage

No

Yes

Chamlide - Live Cell Instrument

No

Yes

Cobolt - Cobolt laser controller

Yes

No

CoherentCube - Coherent Cube laser controller

Yes

No

Conix - Conix Filter Changer, XY and Z stage

Yes

Yes

Corvus - Märzhäuser XY stages with Corvus driver.

Yes

Yes

dc1394 - Firewire cameras that adhere to the iidc1394 specs (Mac and Linux only)

Yes

?

DECamera - Direct Electron Cameras

Yes

No

DemoCamera - Virtual, emulated equipment for testing

Yes

?

DiConIlluminator - DiCon LED-powered brightfield and fluorescence microscopy illuminators, implemented as shutters.

Yes

No

DLP4000 - Digital Mirror Device

Yes

No

DSLRRemoteCamera - Canon DSLR cameras (Windows)

Yes

No

DTOpenLayer - DT OpenLayer Digital IO boards

Yes

No

DVC Cameras

Yes

No

ESIOImagingControllers - Microcontrollers for hardware triggering and synchronization

Yes

No

FreeSerialPort - Communicate directly through a serial port

Yes

?

GenericSLM - Any spatial light modulator that can be controlled via computer video output port.

Yes

?

GigECamera - GigE Vision- and GenICam-compliant cameras

Yes

?

GPhoto - Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras (Mac, Linux)

Yes

No

Hamamatsu - Hamamatsu cameras (through DCAM library)

Yes

Yes

HSi-300 Hyperspectral Imager

Yes

No

Integral Technologies - Flashbus Spectrim

No

Yes

IOTech DaqBoard

No

Yes

ITC18 - controls shutters, cameras, pifocs, anything that can use either a TTL signal or a ±10 V signal

Yes

No

K8055, K8061 - Velleman Digital IO board (all platforms)

Yes

No

KDV - kdvelectronics focus drive (z-stage) for Meiji Techno

Yes

No

LeicaDMI - Leica DMI and DM microscopes

Yes

Yes

LeicaDMR - Leica DMR microscopes (and DMIRBE)

Yes

Yes

Linkam MDS 600

No

Yes

LSTEP Stage Controller - Marzhauser

No

Yes

Ludl - Ludl stages, shutters and filter wheels

Yes

Yes

LumencorSpectra - Solid state illuminator from Lumencor

Yes

No

MaestroServo - Pololu Maestro Servo controller

Yes

No

Marzhauser - Märzhäuser XY stages and Z (uses TANGO controller)

Yes

Yes

MCL-MicroDrive - Mad City Labs MicroDrive

Yes

Yes

MCL-NanoDrive - Mad City Labs NanoDrive

Yes

Yes

Measurement Computing - PCI-DDA02, DDA08/16

No

Yes

Micropix - Cameras from Micropix

Yes

No

MicroPoint Laser System - Photonic Instruments

No

Yes

Mosaic - Andor

No

Yes

MoticCamera - Motic cameras

Yes

No

MSS-FMC - Chuo Seiki

No

Yes

MT20 - Olympus MT20 illumination source (Lamp/shutter/filter wheel)

Yes

No

National Instruments USB-6259 BNC, USB-6501

No

Yes

Nikon - Nikon Z-drive, TIRF shutter and IntensiLight shutter

Yes

Yes

NikonAZ100 - Nikon AZ100 Zoom microscope

Yes

Yes

NikonTE2000 - Nikon TE2000 motorized microscope

Yes

Yes

NikonTI - Nikon TI microscope

Yes

Yes

Nikon Eclipse 90i microscope

?

Yes

NIMotionStage - National Instruments FlexMotion stage controls

Yes

No

NKRemoteCamera - Nikon Digital SLR (Windows)

Yes

No

NPointC400 - nPoint C400 axis controller

Yes

No

Nuance - Cambridge Resarch & Inst.

No

Yes

NV 40/1 CL - Pizeosystem Jena

No

Yes

Oligochrome - TILL Photonics

No

Yes

Olympus - Olympus IX81 (Inverted)/BX61 (Upright)

Yes

Yes

Olympus DP Series cameras

No

Yes

OpenCVgrabber - for frame grabbers and cameras providing a DirectShow or WDM class driver. (Windows)

Yes

No

Optical Insights Dual-Cam/Dual View

Yes

Yes

ParallelPort - TTLs on parallel port (Windows only)

Yes

No

PCI-6503 National Instruments

No

Yes

PCO_Camera - Supports all PCO cameras (Sensicam, Pixelfly and others)

Yes

Yes

Pecon - Pecon Incubation System

Yes

No

Photon Technology International DeltaRAM

No

Yes

PhotoFluor II - 89 North

No

Yes

PI - Other (older) Physik Instrumente devices. Includes the E-662 controller

Yes

Yes

PI_GCS - Physik Instrumente (PI) GCS adapter - Z Stage connected to PI GCS controller (E-665, E-621, E-625, E-753, ...)

Yes

Yes

PI_GCS_2 - Physik Instrumente (PI) GCS2 adapter

Yes

?

Piper - Stanford Photonics cameras

Yes

No

PL200 Slide Loader - Prior Scientific

No

Yes

PlateCrane - Hudson Controls

No

Yes

Polychrome II, IV, V - TILL Photonics

No

Yes

Prairie Aurora Laser Launch - Prairie Aurora Laser Launch Interfacing using a Velleman K8061

Yes

?

PrecisExcite - LED illuminator (usable as a shutter device)

Yes

Yes

PrincetonInstruments - Princeton Instruments cameras

Yes

Yes

Prior - Prior stages, shutters, and filter wheels

Yes

Yes

ProgRes - Jenoptik cameras (ProgRes series)

Yes

No

PSRemoteCamera - Canon PowerShot camera (Windows)

Yes

No

PVCAM - Roper/Photometrics cameras (not for Princeton Instruments)

Yes

Yes

QCam - QImaging cameras

Yes

Yes

QT-CM2 - Chuo-Seiki

No

Yes

Sapphire - Lasers from Coherent

Yes

No

Scientifica - Scientifica stages

Yes

No

ScionCam - Scion cameras

Yes

No

Sensicam - PCO/Cooke Sensicam camera

Yes

Yes

Sigma Koki - Microscope XY Stage

No

Yes

SpectralLMM5 - Spectral laser line controller

Yes

Yes

SpotCamera - Diagnostic Instruments Spot cameras

Yes

No

Stradus - Vortran Stradus laser driver

Yes

No

SutterLambda - Sutter hardware

Yes

Yes

Symbol LS 1220

No

Yes

TetheredCam - Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras (Windows)

Yes

No

Thorlabs - Thorlabs XY Stage (brushless DC motor) and Piezo Z Stage, with controller BBD102

Yes

No

ThorlabsDCxxxx - Thorlabs LED controllers

Yes

No

ThorlabsFilterWheel - Thorlabs Filter Wheel

Yes

No

ThorlabsSC10 - Thorlabs shutter controller

Yes

No

TIScam - The Imaging Source cameras (tested on USB/CCD models) and video frame grabbers

Yes

No

Twain - Cameras fully implementing Twain Imaging Standard

Yes

Yes

Universal Imaging Corporation Discovery-1

No

Yes

V4L - Video4Linux compatible cameras

Yes

No

Varispec - Cambridge Research & Instr. (CRI)

No

Yes

VariLC - Tunable liquid crystal polarization modulators from CRi

Yes

No

Vincent - Vincent Uniblitz controllers

Yes

Yes

Xcite - EXFO X-Cite 120 PC Fluorescent Lamp / Shutter

Yes

Yes

XCite120PC_Exacte - Lumen Dynamics X-Cite 120PC and exacte adapter

Yes

Yes

XIMEA - XIMEA cameras

Yes

No

Yokogawa - Yokogawa CSU22

Yes

Yes

Yokogawa CSUX - Yokogawa CSUX, all models

Yes

Yes

ZeissCAN - Zeiss CAN-bus (not CAN29) compatible microscopes (Axiovert 200m, Axioplan2)

Yes

Yes

ZeissCAN29 - Zeiss CAN29-bus compatible microscopes (AxioObserver)

Yes

Yes

Zeiss MCU-26,27,28

?

Yes