PyMMSp

PyMMSp is an interactive controller for millimeter-wave absorption spectrometer. PyMMSp is developed solely in Python, and uses third-party C-wrappers for National Instrument drivers (if applicable).

The standard application scenario is to control multiplier-chain-based millimeter-wave sources and detectors, using step-by-step frequency scan and lock-in detection. Additional apparatus such as pressure gauge, power supply (to apply bias voltage to the source or / and detector), electronically controlled dosing valves, temperature controller, and so on, can also be controlled by PyMMSp.

Requires:

• pyniscope from Bernardo Kyotoku: provides API for National Instrument Digitizer Card. Requires National Instrument NISCOPE C library.

Documentation includes a user guide and a developer's guide. They are in the 'doc' directory, and are written in the MarkDown language. MarkDown syntax can be easily converted to html. Modern text editors such Atom also provides built-in extensions to directly provide MarkDown preview. For more information about MarkDown, see http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/