An pulse building module to help with building pulses and sequences for arbitrary waveform generators.
Make it possible to abstract pulses into gates, procedures or similar. To be able to make use of the sequencing mode of the AWG5014C with QCoDeS
The module makes it possible to compose Segments from functions which generate the points of part of a pulse based on the funtion parameters. These can then be strung together to form a Waveform and markers added. Waveforms can be used simultaneously by putting those which should be executed simultaneously onto the channels of an Element. An Element acts as a dictionary of Waveforms. Elements can be ordered and put into a Sequence which acts as a list of elements.
Check out the examples in the jupyter notebooks found in the examples folder.
Only works with Python 3
Should work by running the below, replacing $CHICKPEA_INSTALL_DIR with the directory you want to install it into.
$ git clone https://github.com/nataliejpg/Chickpea.git $CHICKPEA_INSTALL_DIR
$ cd $CHICKPEA_INSTALL_DIR
$ pip install .
which will install numpy, matplotlib dependencies if not found. If you are using a virtual enviroment then you are likely to come across
matplotlib issues. matplotlib is not strictly necessary but if you do want to get it working
the easiest way is to use (Ana)conda
$ conda install matplotlib package=2.0.1
You can now fire up a python 3 interpreter and go
>>> import chickpea as pb
If you want to run the examples you will also need to install jupyter by pip or conda
$ pip install jupyter
or
$ conda install jupyter
William named his 'broadbean' https://github.com/QCoDeS/broadbean and I prefer chickpea as a pulse.