We have developed custom electronics to control the peripherals of the microscope systems we build. These include PMT HV and Blacklevel settings, Pockels Cells, AOTFs and various motion control needs. There are a number individual boards we have designed over the years, but all use a PIC18F2455/2550/4455/4550 series microcontroller. These PICs are especially nice in that they have built-in USB 2.0 capability and all of our controller boards communicate with the PC as HID-USB devices (we really hate VCOM ports and avoid them whenever possible). The PIC MCUs are programmed in C using the CCS PIC compiler.

More information about the various controller boards will be posted in the future.