Instrument consortia produce for externally developed instruments software components that will be assembled by the DMD to create the DFS tools for an instrument. For the Data Flow, this will involve:
During this phase the consortia develop the contractually agreed upon suite of programs necessary for the engineering calibration of the instrument, the calibration and reduction of all types of data expected from the instrument, and the assessment of their technical quality. For in-house built instruments these tools will require DMD support and need to be available by the time of the laboratory integration and the subsequent tests when they have to be used the most.
When data reduction software will be developed by a consortium, the implementation in the DFS will be realized by the DPG. The consortium will provide basic calibration components in the most system independent, reusable way (see Section 6.4).
The instrument consortium provides the following initial information: