Leica Biosystems CW4000 Installing BU-IS Software - Manual

Installing BU-IS Software
As you are aware the BU-IS application software (FW, IW, MW and CW) interfaces to the imaging
hardware (cameras, frame grabbers, microscopes, stages) via software that we supply on the 'Leica
Server CD'. The following diagram explains how these are organised as software modules.
The testing of this Server CD is very complex as it has to be checked with multiple applications,
operating systems, cameras etc. We even have to test all the different PCs and graphics boards. As
you can see this is a very demanding and time-consuming task and it occupies 2 engineers at
Cambridge full-time - One writing the software and the second in testing.
In addition we rely on software produced by our colleagues at CM (for the microscope DM SDK) and
SM (for the DC Twain camera software).
Many of the items that have to be tested for compatibility are outside our control and can change during
the testing process. To give examples:
a) The frame grabber becomes obsolete and the manufacturer has not given advanced warning.
b) We discover bugs in the non-BU-IS software that are not apparent in normal use but which cause our
applications to fail.
c) New microscopes and cameras are launched.