SpectrumDAQ About

Goal Statement

SpecLAB aims to provide researchers with software tools to write their own custom made spectral data acquistion and analysis software. Many spectral instrument manufacturers provide proprietry software to perform data acquistion and analysis. Often, these software packages do not provide the desired functionality and data export is required to perform further analysis in other packages such as Microsoft Excel, MATLAB or Python, etc... SpecLAB offers the opportunity to reduce software development time for researchers by providing basic functionality for data acquistion, analysis and display.

SpectrumDAQ is written in NI LabVIEW, a graphical programming language developped by National Instruments. Since an object oriented software approach has been applied throughout the program, the user only needs to develop their own instrument data acquisition module or class to get started. SpectrumDAQ comes with a dummy instrument data class which simulates spectra and spectral parameters. Also, it takes care of data storage -and loading in the background, so users can focus on the development of suitable data analysis strategies.