Overview

MicroFPGA is an FPGA-based platform for the electronic control of microscopes. It aims at using affordable FPGA to generate or read signals from a variety of devices, including cameras, lasers, servomotors, filter-wheels, etc. It can be controlled via Micro-Manager, or its Java, Python and LabView communication libraries, and comes with optional complementary electronics.

Documentation and tutorials are available on https://mufpga.github.io/.

Content

This repository contains the Python package to control MicroFPGA. To use microfpga in you Python environment, you can install it directly with pip:

pip install microfpga

Alternatively, you can install it from the source code:

git clone https://github.com/mufpga/MicroFPGA-py
cd MicroFPGA-py
pip install -e .

Finally, configure your Alchitry FPGA with the correct configuration and try some of the example scripts.

Cite us

Joran Deschamps, Christian Kieser, Philipp Hoess, Takahiro Deguchi, Jonas Ries, "MicroFPGA: An affordable FPGA platform for microscope control", HardwareX 2023 (13): e00407, doi:10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00407.

MicroFPGA-py was written by Joran Deschamps, EMBL (2020). PyPi page