Pixelpulse is a powerful user interface for visualizing and manipulating signals while exploring systems attached to affordable analog interface devices, such as Analog Devices' ADALM1000 or the Nonolith Labs' CEE.
Fully cross-platform using the Qt5 graphics toolkit and OpenGL accelerated density-gradiated rendering, it provides a powerful and accessible tool for initial interactive explorations.
Intuitive click-and-drag interfaces make exploring system behaviors across a wide range of signal amplitudes, frequencies, or phases a trivial exercise. Just click once to source a constant voltage or current and see what happens. Choose a function (sawtooth, triangle, sinusoidal, square) - adjust parameters, and make waves.
Zoom in and out with your scroll wheel or multitouch gestures (on supported platforms). Hold "Shift" to for Y-axis zooming.
Click and drag the X axis to pan in time.
- OSX - Navigate to the releases and collect the latest
pixelpulse2-bundled.dmg.zippackage. The latest testing build is available from Travis-CI. - Windows - For a testing build, download the dependency package and the latest binary build from appveyor. For an official release build, navigate to releases and collect the latest pixelpulse2-setup.exe.
- Linux - Either build from source (below) or navigate to the releases and collect the latest .deb or .tgz file for your architecture. Install or extract as appropriate.
To build from source on any platform, you need to install a C++ compiler toolchain, collect the build dependencies, setup your build environment, and compile the project.
If you have not built packages from source before, this is ill-advised.
- Install LibUSB.
- Install using your package manager - "libusb" on OSX Homebrew, "libusb-1.0-0-dev" on modern Debian/Ubuntu distributions, "libusb-devel" on Fedora/CentOS.
- Build from source using the appropriate branch if a version of LibUSB with HotPlug support for your platform is not available. (Windows, Debian Wheezy)
- Install Qt5.4.
- On most Linux Distributions, Qt5 is available in repositories. The complete list of packages required varies, but includes qt's support for declarative (qml) UI programming, qtquick, qtquick-window, qtquick-controls, and qtquick-layouts.
- Binary installers are available from the Qt project for most platforms.
To build / run on a generic POSIX platform
git clone --recursive https://github.com/signalspec/pixelpulse2
cd pixelpulse2
mkdir build
cd build
qmake -qt=qt5 ..
make
To build / install for Debian, from the pixelpulse2 directory:
dh_make -p pixelpulse2_0.8 -s -c blank --createorig
dpkg-buildpackage
sudo dpkg -i ../pixelpulse2_0.1-1_i386.deb