Python Library For Feeltech Signal Generators (FY2300, FY6600, FY6800, FY6900)

[ptype]

I put together a Python library to simplify communications and work around firmware bugs.

http://github.com/mattwach/fygen

It has the following features:

• Free and Open source
• Comprehensive support (custom waveforms, measurements, etc)
• High level and low level access methods.
• Supports both Python 2 and Python 3
• Unit tested, Lint Clean
• Supports most OSes (Linux, Windows, Mac)
• Usage documentation and many examples are provided

Example usage:


import fygen
fy = fygen.FYGen()
fy.set(channel=fygen.CH1, enable=True, wave='sin', freq_hz=10000)
fy.set(channel=fygen.CH2, enable=True, wave='square', freq_hz=20000)




You can also make a kitty:



Or some PI:



I hope some of you find it useful!

[battlecoder]

Hi!
I just played around with this today and seems to work fine!
As I've been trying to automate some stuff around my lab, I was looking into writing a control system for this frequency generator myself, but I think yours does everything I needed and them some!
Great work, and thanks for sharing.

[ptype]

That's good to hear!  Thanks for the feedback 

[Lesolee]

I have been struggling with this, just trying to get Python to talk to the FY6800 at all.  Then I found your library and it worked really easily.

The number of variations of commands, formats, parameters etc is so great that you can spend forever, getting nowhere when starting from scratch. Then a light at the end of the tunnel as the generator springs into life, and you know the hardware works. Phew. 

I found and fixed the couple of bugs in my few lines of Python just for completeness, but clearly your library is so good, why use anything else. 

“Thanks” seems an inadequate acknowledgement. Your library is really appreciated.