Igor Pro is an interactive software environment for experimentation with scientific and engineering data and for the production of publication-quality graphs and page layouts. Igor has been used by tens of thousands of technical professionals since its introduction in 1989.
Igor Pro combines powerful tools with an easy to use, point and click interface for the casual user together and a programming environment for the sophisticated user. Igor Pro’s plugin technology extends the built-in functionality with custom tools for data acquisition, instrument control and computational tasks.
Igor Pro is an excellent tool for:
- Graphics Creation - Igor Pro is first and foremost a publication quality scientific and engineering graphics program, capable of creating visually stunning 3D graphics as well as 2D graphs
- Data Access - Scientists and engineers encounter many data formats. Igor Pro provides a variety of import, storage and export capabilities that can handle almost any requirement.
- Data Storage - Unlike spreadsheet programs, Igor Pro's data objects won't clutter up your screen. Efficiently organize your data into a hierarchy, just like you would organize files in a hierarchy of folders on your hard drive!
- Data Manipulation & Math - Igor Pro provides an extensive library of math and data manipulation routines and Igor's array-oriented arithmetic make complex operations a snap.
- Image Processing - Igor Pro contains a full set of operations and functions for scientific image analysis applications.
- Data Analysis - Igor provides many analysis capabilities, including curve fitting, peak analysis, signal processing and statistics.
- Analysis of Function - Igor includes several operations that work on functions rather than discrete data points, including: plotting of functions, differential equations, numerical integration of functions, root finding and optimization.
Programming
Igor Pro includes a powerful and full-featured structured programming language that you can use for automation of data import, file I/O, analysis, data acquisition, graphing, drawing, printing, and just about anything you can think of.
Igor´s full-featured symbolic debugger gives you a powerful tool to get your code working properly by observing it execute one step at a time. You can view multidimensional waves as images and 1D waves in a regular graph. You can also view waves in a table and values edited in place.
Highlights of Igor Pro 10:
- Igor Pro 10 contains hundreds of improvements, including built-in support for Python and new functions and operations.
- Python Integration.
- Micro-Manager MMI XOP controls a wide range of hardware such as scientific cameras, light-sources, shutters, filter-wheels, XY- and Z-axis stages, etc.
- Procedure window code folding, improved line continuation, syntax highlighting and "jump to routine" via Ctrl+click.
- Improved Multipeak Fitting improves automatic peak finding and error handling.
- New ProgTop and UserTop drawing layers.
- Page layout guides.
- Controls can be attached to guides for easier layout of resized panels.
- Multi-language support in one Igor Pro application.
- New operations and functions.
- Performance improvements in Igor's compiler, in the NewPath, IndexedFile, MultiThread and ThreadGroupCreate operations.
Highlights of Igor Pro 9:
- Igor Pro 9 contains hundreds of improvements, including 58 new operations and functions, and built-in support for HDF5. Some of these changes are highlighted below. Click here for a more detailed description of the Igor Pro 9 changes.
- Autosave
- HDF5 Experiment Files (option to save an experiment using current PXP format or new HDF5 based format)
- Improved Box Plot and Violin Plot style and plotting options
- Expansion setting for control panels to accommodate large or small monitors
- Command completion of user-defined functions and command tooltips for built-in and user-defined functions
- Sparse matrix support
- Complex curve fitting
- Extensive Multipeak Fitting package improvements
Highlights of Igor Pro 8:
- Produces and exports high-resolution, journal quality scientific graphs in EPS and PDF
- Handles large data sets very quickly
- Includes a wide range of capabilities for scientific and engineering analysis and simulation
- Contains a built-in programming environment that makes it easy to automate applications and extend internal tools
- Completely programmable via a built-in programming environment and can be extended by external code (XOPs) written in C
- Igor Pro has special support for time-series or other evenly-spaced data
- Includes extensive image processing tools for image filtering, manipulation and graphing
- Runs on Macintosh and Windows computers; Igor Pro 8 data files are cross-platform compatible
- Imports data in many formats and can acquire data from hardware devices
- Uses unicode to support foreign languages and mathematical symbols
- Active user-to-user support and collaboration forum
- Responsive, user-acclaimed technical support
- Includes Igor Filter Design Laboratory for interactive design of FIR and IIR digital filters