Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: spirack
Version: 0.2.2
Summary: Drivers for the QuTech SPI-rack
Home-page: https://github.com/mtiggelman/SPI-rack
Author: Marijn Tiggelman
Author-email: qutechdev@gmail.com
License: MIT
Description: # SPI Rack
        The SPI Rack is a modular electronic instrumentation platform developed by QuTech. It has been developed to perform measurements on nanoelectronic devices, but is not limited to this. Design priority was the minimization of noise and interference signals on the wires connected to the measured device (sample). To learn more about the SPI Rack, use cases and the available modules, browse the [homepage](http://qtwork.tudelft.nl/~mtiggelman/).
        
        This repository contains the Python code to interface with the hardware. All the low level communication is handled by the classes and the user is presented with an easy interface to control the modules. Here is a simple example on how to use the D5a (16 channel 18-bit DAC module) to show how easy it is to get going:
        
        ```Python
        # Import parts of the SPI Rack library
        from spirack import SPI_rack, D5a_module
        
        # Instantiate the controller module
        spi = SPI_rack(port="COM4", baud=9600, timeout=1)
        # Unlock the controller for communication to happen
        spi.unlock()
        
        # Instantiate the D5a module using the controller module
        # and the correct module address
        D5a = D5a_module(spi, module=2)
        # Set the output of DAC 1 to the desired voltage
        D5a.set_voltage(0, voltage=2.1)
        ```
        More examples can be found as Jupyter notebooks in [examples](https://github.com/mtiggelman/SPI-rack/tree/master/examples) or at the [website](http://qtwork.tudelft.nl/~mtiggelman/software/examples.html).
        
        ## Installation
        **Windows 7&8 users:** before connecting the SPI-rack for the first time, install the drivers located
        in `drivers.zip`. On 64-bit systems run `SPI-Rack_x64`, on 32-bit systems
        run `SPI-Rack_x86`. This is not necessary anymore for Windows 10 systems.
        
        For a basic install use: `pip install spirack`. For more details see the website [here](http://qtwork.tudelft.nl/~mtiggelman/software/setup.html).
        
        ## Qcodes
        Qcodes wrappers for certain modules are available from https://github.com/QCoDeS/Qcodes
        
        ## License
        See [License](https://github.com/mtiggelman/SPI-rack/blob/master/LICENSE).
        
Keywords: SPI,Qcodes,SPI-rack,QuTech,TU Delft,SPI
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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