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Changelog for QCoDeS 0.4.0

The June 2019 release of QCoDeS adds final touches to support for complex-valued data, includes under-the-hood improvements, and ships a couple of new instrument drivers as well as improvements to existing instrument drivers.

New & Improved:

  • Native support for complex-valued data:
    • Support for plotting complex-valued datasets in plot_by_id (#1592)
    • Reorg Parameter notebooks and add basic complex numbers notebook (#1568)
  • QCoDeS Workflow:
    • Add plot_dataset function to plot given data set without specifying id as in plot_by_id (#1614)
  • Instruments
    • Fix / snapshot_base params_to_skip_update behavior (#1584)
  • Database upgrades:
    • DB version 6 - version contents of run_description column (#1577)
  • Old dataset:
    • Change HDF5FormatMetadata to not sort keys in the metadata (#1581)

Instrument drivers:

  • New Drivers:
    • Keysight B1500 Parameter Analyzer (#1573)
    • Tektronix Oscilloscopes: MSO/DPO5000/B, DPO7000/C, DPO70000/B/C/D/DX, DSA70000/B/C/D, and MSO70000/C/DX (#1579, #1606)
  • Improved Drivers:
    • Lock-in Amplifiers:
      • ZI UHF-LI: fix scope_mode and scope_average_weight parameters (#1597)
      • Add jumbo frames and reference clock source parameters to ZIUHFLI (#1590)
    • Magnets:
      • Two fixes for Oxford IPS120 driver. (#1619)
    • Source Meters:
      • Keithley 2600: Add list to hold channels (#1603)
    • QuTech instruments:
      • M4i: fix incorrect return value for ACDC_offs_compensation_x (#1585)
      • M4i: get ACDC offset compensation (#1596)
      • D5a: Add set_dac_unit method (#1582)
      • D5a: Updating vals when unit is updated (#1589)

Miscellaneous:

  • Documentation: Explicit experiment in notebooks (#1612)

Under the hood:

  • Use perf_counter, not monotonic for DB flushing (#1498)
  • Don't get db location from config if sqlite connection supplied (#1618)
  • Don't read from layouts and dependencies tables in QCoDeS (#1572)
  • Reorganization of sqlite-facing modules (#1570)
  • Reorganization of run descriptions module structure (#1577)