Add MicroFPGA

[jdeschamps]

Hi there,

Here is the device adapter for a FPGA board that the Ries lab (EMBL) and collaborators have been using for a few years on their microscopes. The platform is called MicroFPGA and is based on an hobby FPGA board from Alchitry (Au or Cu, now produced by SparkFun).

MicroFPGA generats various control signals used on microscopes such as a flexible laser triggering system, servomotors, TTL or PWM (used for instance together with a low-pass for analog output). Together with one of the FPGA board (Au), it can also read in analog signals.

We put some effort in making the project repository as documented as possible so that it is easy for people to reproduce and install on their own microscope.

[nanthony21]

Thanks! Other than the minor thing that I commented on I think this is good to go.

[jdeschamps]

Cheers! Where is the comment? I must have missed it. :)

[nanthony21]

Ok, I was just asking to have the lines that are like: #include "../../MMDevice/header_file.h" changed to #include "header_file.h".

The reason is just that the MMDevice folder is already added to the include paths in the project. If, in the future, the relative path to MMDevice changes then we will only need to adjust the path in the project property rather than changing it in every source file.

I made this change in all of the existing device adapters when migrating to this repository so I'd like to maintain that for new device adapters as well.

Edit: I guess I had to click "submit review" before the comment actually appeared.

[nanthony21]

Since MMDevice is already an include directory can these be changed to just say #include "DeviceBase.h" ?

This just saves some work later if the relative path between the device adapters and MMDevice ever changes.

[jdeschamps]

Makes sense! I implemented the changes.

[nanthony21]

Looks good. This should hopefully show up in tomorrow's build.