pyAbacus is built to simplify the usage of Tausand Abacus family of coincidence counters, providing a library aimed to interface these devices using Python coding.
Written in Python3, pyAbacus relies on the following modules:
- pyserial
Library version: 1.2.1
Original release date: 12/28/2017 (mm/dd/yyyy)
Current release date: 06/11/2024
Supported models: AB1002, AB1004, AB1502, AB1504, AB2502, AB2504.
This is a family of coincidence counters, ideal to measure temporal correlations in particle detection and quantum optics experiments.
To learn more about them, visit our website www.tausand.com
To obtain a Tausand's Abacus coincidence counter, visit our online shop or contact us at [email protected]
pyAbacus can be installed using pip as:
pip install pyAbacus
Or from GitHub
pip install git+https://github.com/Tausand-dev/PyAbacus.git
To learn how to use pyAbacus, take a look at the examples folder and run the scripts after you've installed pyAbacus. For more details on how to run this library, read PyAbacus_Documentation.pdf or navigate the HTML version located at docs/build/html/index.html.
Clone the GitHub repository and then follow the next steps:
Run the following code to create a virtual environment called .venv
python -m venv .venv
- On Unix systems:
source .venv/bin/activate
- On Windows:
.venv\Scripts\activate
deactivate
After the virtual environment has been activated, install required packages by using:
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
This will allow you to build the documentation using Sphinx.
When a new version is created, the new numbering should be updated in the following files:
- docs/source/conf.py
- pyAbacus/__init__.py
- setup.cfg
Go to the docs folder and run
make <command>
Where <command> is one of the following:
latexpdfhtml
To run the latexpdf command you will need a working installation of Latex.