HAICU

Overview

Package and command line utility for controlling and sequencing the MLD1200

The available subcommands are:

• list - List of available MLD1200 devices
• info - Get full report on MLD1200, all registers and status bits
• set - Allows human-readable setting of register values
• upload - Upload a new sequence into MLD1200 (does not run!)
• program - Upload and start sequence
• convert - Convert derived.txt file into .RLE format
• compare - Compare a derived file to an RLE file
• csv - Future use. Will convert .csv directly to RLE
• monitor - Attach to MLD and log errors

Diagnostic subcommands:

• memtest - Test the selected MLD by writing then reading random values to DDR memory
• status - Low level readback of status registers
• control - Low level read/write of control registers
• memory - Low level read/write of DDR memory
• bread - Low level block read of DDR memory section

Installation

The recommended installation method is via pip

To install: pip install haicu

To upgrade: pip install -U haicu

To run it locally from the source (from the scripts/haicu directory): python -m haicu

Interactive

Command: haicu-ctl [-h] [--version] [-v] [-l file] [-s SERIAL] [-j] {list,info,set,upload,program,convert,compare,csv,monitor}

Purpose: Connects to an MLD1200 device and reads/writes registers, statuses, and memory. Also contains utility functions to create .RLE files for consumption by device.

Options:

-h or --help Print out help for general usage or subcommand. Ie: haicu-ctl -h or haicu-ctl reg -h

--version Print out current version

-v or --verbose Increase logging level, can be used multiple times

-l LOG_FILE or --log LOG_FILE Specify log file name, instead of standard naming scheme

-s SERIAL or --serial SERIAL Specify serial number of MLD1200 to connect to

-j or --json For reads, format output in JSON. Only affects info, register, memory, and bread