hunahpy

Python 3.6 (32 bits only)

ctypes based library for the IDQuantique id800 time-to-digital converter (TDC)

Shared libraries you need:

• nhconnect.dll
• nhconnect.lib
• tdcbase.dll
• tdcbase.lib
• libusb0.dll (32 bit)

hunahpy package:

hunahpy contains one object only: TDC

TDC is a controller for the id800. Its methods can be access like:

• TDC.getLastTimestamps() (a function)
• TDC.timebase (a value)

config.py is the configuration file for hunahpy. It allows for two different data saving schemes using the cont variable:

• cont = True (or continuous data saving) means it creates only one file and dumps every recorded event there. You need to call the write function again to stop writing.
• cont = False means it creates n data files and writes time tags in one until a set buffer size is reached. It then stops and moves on to the next one automatically.

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Example script to open or create a file filename.dat saved in /data/ and write 10 seconds worth of events in binary format:

import time
from hunahpy import TDC

tagger = TDC()
tagger.writeTimestamps('/data/filename.dat',binary=True)
time.wait(10)
tagger.writeTimestamps()
tagger.close()

If opening a TDC object don't forget to close connection with TDC.close()