Instrument Software Documentation

ICS Framework Software - Release summary

Date

ELTDev Version

ICS Framework version

Comment

Release Supported

August 2025

ELTDev 6.1.0 (Fedora 40) & ECOS 2025.04

IFW 2025

Official 2025.08 release

yes

July 2024

ELTDev 5.2.0 (Fedora 38) & ECOS 2024.03

IFW 2024

Official 2024.07 release

yes

December 2023

ELTDev 4.8.0 (Fedora 34)

IFW 5.0.0

Official 5.0.0 release

no

June 2023

ELTDev 4.5.0 (Fedora 34)

IFW 5.0.0-Beta

Beta release (first version for Fedora)

no

Mars 2023

ELTDev 3.10.0 (CentOS8)

IFW 4.1.0-pre2

Development release (last version for CentOS8)

no

May 2022

ELTDev 3.9.0 (CentOS8)

IFW 4.0.0

Official Annual Release

no

May 2021

ELTDev 3.1.8 (CentOS8)

IFW 3.0.0

Official Annual Release (RPM delivery)

no

May 2020

ELTDev 2.2.0 (CentOS7)

IFW 2.0.0

Official Release (no RPM delivery, from GIT)

no

May 2019

ELTDev 2.1.13 (CentOS7)

IFW 1.0.0

Official First Release (no RPM delivery, from SVN)

no

ICS Framework Software - Latest release (Fedora40): 2025.08

IFW User Manual - v2025.08

Note

The version 6.2.0 (puppet-elt-6.2.0) of ELT Development Environment with ECOS 2025.04 (elt-ecos-devel-2025.04) shall be used with this version of ICS Framework (IFW). All needed RPMs are available in the public RPM repository ELT Platform 25, and IFW 25 is released within ELT Platform 25.21.0. In ELT Linux Installation manual, follow instruction Installing specific version of ELT Platform with selected version 25.21.latest

List of IFW RPMs version:

  • ICS Framework HL: elt-ifw-2025.08

  • Data Display Tool: elt-ddt-1.2.1

  • Test Runner Framework: elt-etr-3.3.0 (delivered with ELT Development Environment)

  • Application Framework: elt-rad-5.5.0

  • Sequencer: elt-seq-4.4.0

  • Camera Control Framework: elt-ifw-ccf-5.0.2

  • Miscellaneous Core Libraries: elt-ifw-core-6.0.1

  • Observation Coordination Framework: elt-ifw-daq-3.2.0

  • Observation Coordination Framework Interface: elt-ifw-daqif-2.0.0

  • Function Control Framework: elt-ifw-fcf-7.1.4

  • Function Control Framework Interface: elt-ifw-fcfif-1.1.0

  • Online Data Processing: elt-ifw-odp-5.0.0

  • RTMS Tools: elt-ifw-rtmstools-3.0.0

  • Observation Coordination Framework: elt-ifw-sup-5.0.0

  • Observation Coordination Framework Interface: elt-ifw-supif-1.1.1

  • Widget Library: elt-ifw-wdglib-1.1.0

  • Calibration Framework: elt-ifw-calob-1.0.0

  • Fundamental Definitions and Tools: elt-ifw-fnd-1.0.0

  • Frame Grabber Framework: elt-ifw-fgf-1.0.0

  • Template Library: elt-ifw-tpl-1.0.0

To install IFW 2025 follow instruction from IFW user manual: installation

ICS Framework Software - Additional Documentation

Cryo HMI User Manuals

IFW PLC libraries and tools v7.0.0

Camera

FREDA WFS camera TTBOX version for IFW25 v1.2.0

FREDA WFS camera TTBOX is available as RPM and it can be installed as root with :

> dnf -y install elt-freda-ttbox

NGCII

List of NGCII RPMs released with IFW25:

  • NGC: elt-ngc-1.3.0

  • DCF: elt-dcf-1.3.0

NGCII User Manuals:

To install NGCII follow instruction described in section 4 of the Optical NGCII Software User Manual (ESO-451391).

ICS Framework Software - Templates

IFW Templates version for IFW 2025 (v7.0.4)

ICS Framework Software - Previous releases

IFW User Manual

IFW Templates

Additional Documentation

Other User Manual

ECS Interfaces User Manuals

CII Documentation

NEW - ELTDEV Documentation for Fedora

OLD - ELTDEV Documentation for CentoS8

HLCC Documentation