MaxView is the new generation package from SAMx. MaxView teams up with the SAMx EDS software IDFix, making of those two programs a complete ED/Imaging package.
MaxView user interface has the look and feel of IDFix and has been designed to cover all SEM applications.

Features

Signals

· Two video inputs (SE, BSE, ABS, ...) and 15 X-ray signals.

· Computer controlled brightness, contrast and SEM control signals.

Acquisition

· Image size from 64 to 2048 pixels.

· Programmable dwell time per pixel and number of video readings per pixel.

· Live or one sweep acquisition function.

· Many files formats supported : TIFF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, TGA, PNG, WMF.

· Display size independent from acquisition size.

· Thumbnails available.

· Programmable zoom 1 to 10.

· Cursor on image with an optional simultaneous control of the beam.

· Programmable Micron Marker with display of Acc. Voltage, Mag and Beam Current.

Measures · Interactive distance between two points. · Angle between two directions. · Non regular drawing of an area with calculation of the % area and average pixel value.

Image processing

· Geometric transformations (flip, reverse, rotation).

· Various filters (median, sharpen, smooth, edge enhance).

· Histogram manipulation and equalization.

· Thresholding of images.

Database · Microsoft ACCESS file format. · Add/suppress images. · Image gallery. · Possibility to sort the database. · Possibility to query the database (SQL language).