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Title: PymePix: a python library for SPIDR readout of Timepix3

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7]
  1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
  2. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science ; Univ. of Hamburg (Germany)
  3. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  4. Czech Technical Univ., Brehova, (Czech Republic). d Department of Physics; University of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  5. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Cosmology and Astrophysics Group
  6. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science; Univ. of Hamburg (Germany). Center for Ultrafast Imaging
  7. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science; Univ. of Hamburg (Germany); Univ. of Hamburg (Germany). Center for Ultrafast Imaging
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PymePix is a new Python 3 library that provides control and acquisition for the Timepix3-SPIDR hardware. The rich set of data-structures and intuitive routines reduces time and coding effort to quickly configure, acquire, and visualize data from Timepix3. The highly extensible high-performance data-pipeline allows for alteration of the Timepix3 datastream into a form that is convinient for the user. This library is intended to be easily inserted into a standard scientific software stack as well as to allow for more direct interaction of Timepix3 with interactive flavors of Python. Included with the library are two example programs using PymePix: pymepix-acq is a command line control and acquisition program that can capture UDP packets and decode them into pixels and triggers. The second is pymepixviewer, an online control and data-acquisition program for general use, but with features geared toward mass-spectroscopy and ion imaging.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1561239
Report Number(s):
BNL-212066-2019-JAAM
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Journal Name: Journal of Instrumentation Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 14; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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