ITC XOP2

Overview

This Igor Pro extension ("XOP") is a complete rewrite of the original ITC XOP from HEKA.

Compared to the original ITC XOP it has the following enhancements:

• Available for 32bit and 64bit
• Uses a coherent interface with Operation Handler and ParseOperationTemplate
• Threadsafe operations
• Allow free waves where sensible
• All output waves can be overwritten
• Standardize 2D wave formats so that all waves have one column per channel
• Updated and enhanced documentation
• Test suite using the Igor Unit Testing Framework

Installation

• Quit Igor Pro

• Create the following shortcuts in "$HOME\Documents\WaveMetrics\Igor Pro X User Files"

  • In "Igor Extensions" a shortcut pointing to "XOP\itcXOP2.xop"
  • In "Igor Extensions (64-bit)" a shortcut pointing to "XOP\itcXOP2-64.xop"

• Start Igor Pro

Running requirements

Minimum Igor Pro versions are 8.0.

Windows 10

Out of the box the ITCXOP2 does only run in the 32bit version on Windows 10. The reason is that there seems to be an issue in the combination of the ITCMM.DLL (the vendor library which the ITCXOP2 uses) and a security feature called ASLR which is enabled by default starting with Windows 10.

Luckily by disabling ASLR for Igor Pro the ITCXOP2 works again.

Steps:

• Right-click "tools\Disable-ASLR-for-IP7-and-8.ps1" and choose "Run" and choose yes when asked for administrative permissions.
• Restart Igor Pro

You can check if that worked by looking in the Exploit-Protection (german: "Exploit-Schutz") submenu of Windows-Security (german: "Windows Sicherheit") under Programs. There should be entries for C:\Program Files\WaveMetrics\....

In case this did not work you can try the following approach:

• Open a Powershell console as administrator
• Go to the tools directory in this repo (if you are using MIES the path is Packages/ITCXOP2/tools)
• Execute Set-ProcessMitigation -PolicyFilePath ./Settings.xml

Compilation instructions

Required additional software:

• CMake 3.15 or newer from here
• Visual Studio 2022
• XOPSupport Toolkit 8
• Igor Unit Testing Framework

Steps to compile:

• Extract the XOPSupport Toolkit into the folder XOPSupport
• md build
• cmake ../src
• cmake --build . --config Release

Steps to execute the test suite:

• Connect a ITC18USB to the host computer
• Open Testing/QuickTest.pxp and execute run()