== DESCRIPTION ==

TIPS Is a Pixel Simulation software, that is based on aXeSIM code(http://axe.stsci.edu/axesim/).

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== PREREQUISITES ==

The project have some dependencies. At the level of the C code it requires:

• Cross-platform Make (CMake) v2.6.2+
• GNU Make
• GCC, or an alternative reasonably conformant C++ compiler.
• HEASARC's CFITSIO library (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/)
• GNU GSL library, with CBLAS interface (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/)
• WCSTools library (http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/wcstools/)

At the level of the python scripting it requires:

• PyFITS module (http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/pyfits) Note : PyFITS is now deprecated in favor of astropy.io.fits (on-going).
• AstroAsciiData module (http://www.stecf.org/software/PYTHONtools/astroasciidata/)
• SciPy and NumPy modules (http://www.scipy.org/index.html)

== BUILDING AND INSTALLING ==

This project uses the CMake build system. However, we have conveniently provided wrappers in the form of a configure script and a Makefile so that the typical build invocation of "./configure" followed by "make" will work. Take care that the users of CMake may think that the top-level Makefile has been generated by CMake but it hasn't. If deleted, this Makefile can be regenerated with "./configure". For a list of all possible build targets, use the command "make help".

The CMake targets are the following:

• all (default) : build all the project targets (binairies,libraries,archives/. This don't include the API doc, nor the tests.
• test : build the project tests.
• check : launch the project tests.
• doc/doxygen : build the project API documentation.
• clean : cleanup the build.
• disclean : cleanup the entire project, back to its distribution version

To buid the project one should do:

cd build; cmake .. or equivalently (wrapper a la autoconf) ./configure

Then to install the project

make; sudo make install

== CREDITS ==

The authors of the TIPS simulator are: Julien Zoubian Martin Kuemmel Nicolas Fourmanoit

The projects benefited from the contributions of : Anne Ealet Eric Jullo Smaïn Kermiche Gerard Smadja Nikolaos Apostolakos Alexandre Diaz Paolo Franzetti