The development of the MCE-4 was initially begun with a contract to produce the detector electronics for the AIRES instrument that will fly aboard the NASA/DARA Sofia  airborne observatory.  This application is interesting in that it will be driving four arrays of different configurations simultaniously and asyncronously.

 In the fall of 1999 this system came on line driving a 128 x 128 Boeing BIB array. Esentially it has been 18 months from concept to first images.  All major systems have been tested as of 12/17/99.  The back end platform was an NT based PC.

Subsequently the MCE-4 was also selected to be the detector controller for the following instruments:
-The GEMINI mid-infrared instrument T-ReCS being built by University of Florida.
-The Multi slit spectrometer Flamingos also being built by the University of Florida.
-The mid-infrared imager and spectrograph for the GTC also by the university of Florida
 

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This page is under construction. Last update: February 10, 1998.