nidigital 0.9.2 and 1.3.2 of other modules

• ALL

  • Changed

    • Fix #1491: import_attribute_configuration_buffer() fails intermittently when list or array.array is passed in.
    • Update "Driver Version Tested Against", in documentation, with latest versions installed on nimi-bot. The version is 20.5.0 for NI-DCPower, NI-SWITCH, and NI-DMM. no changes on other drivers.

• nidcpower (NI-DCPower)

  • Added

    • API parity with NI-DCPower 20.5.0 by adding measurement autoranging threshold range support, for which the following properties are added:
      • autorange
      • autorange_aperture_time_mode
      • autorange_behavior
      • autorange_minimum_aperture_time
      • autorange_minimum_aperture_time_units
      • autorange_minimum_current_range
      • autorange_minimum_voltage_range
      • autorange_threshold_mode

• niscope (NI-SCOPE)

  • Added

    • New methods for getting calibration information. - #1463
      • get_ext_cal_last_date_and_time
      • get_ext_cal_last_temp
      • get_self_cal_last_date_and_time
      • get_self_cal_last_temp
    • Measurement library methods. - #806
      • add_waveform_processing
      • clear_waveform_measurement_stats
      • clear_waveform_processing
      • fetch_array_measurement
      • fetch_measurement_stats
    • Measurement library properties.
      • meas_array_gain
      • meas_array_offset
      • meas_chan_high_ref_level
      • meas_chan_low_ref_level
      • meas_chan_mid_ref_level
      • meas_filter_center_freq
      • meas_filter_cutoff_freq
      • meas_filter_order
      • meas_filter_ripple
      • meas_filter_taps
      • meas_filter_transient_waveform_percent
      • meas_filter_type
      • meas_filter_width
      • meas_fir_filter_window
      • meas_high_ref
      • meas_low_ref
      • meas_mid_ref
      • meas_hysteresis_percent
      • meas_interpolation_sampling_factor
      • meas_last_acq_histogram_size
      • meas_other_channel
      • meas_percentage_method
      • meas_polynomial_interpolation_order
      • meas_ref_level_units
      • meas_time_histogram_high_time
      • meas_time_histogram_high_volts
      • meas_time_histogram_low_time
      • meas_time_hisogram_low_volts
      • meas_time_histogram_size
      • meas_voltage_histogram_high_volts
      • meas_voltage_histogram_low_volts
      • meas_voltage_histogram_size

  • Changed

    • Fix #1509: channel and record fields are swapped in waveform_info struct returned from niscope fetch methods
    • Fix #1510: record value in waveform_info struct returned from niscope fetch methods is wrong if record_number is non-zero

nidigital 0.9.1 and 1.3.1 of other modules

• ALL

  • Changed

    • Fix #1473: Unintentional dependency on pytest
    • Fix #1474: Requires hightime>=0.2.0

nidigital 0.9.0 and 1.3.0 of other modules

• ALL

  • Changed

    • Change the type of applicable properties and method parameters from datetime.timedelta to hightime.timedelta and from datetime.datetime to hightime.datetime. - #744, #1368, #1382, #1397
    • Update "Driver Version Tested Against", in documentation, with latest versions installed on nimi-bot. The version is 20.0.0 for all modules except nidigital, for which it is 19.0.1.

• NI-DCPower

  • Added

    • API parity with NI-DCPower 20.0 by adding the following properties:
      • Session.serial_number
      • Session.actual_power_allocation
      • Session.requested_power_allocation
      • Session.power_allocation_mode

• NI-Digital Pattern Driver

  • Added

    • 0.9.0 release:
      • Public API is considered complete, stable, and tested
      • Parity with public API for other ADEs supported in NI-Digital Pattern Driver 19.0.1
      • API reference documentation and example code are not complete

  • Changed

    • Changed initial_state parameters in apply_levels_and_timing to basic sequence types - #1391
    • Changed HistoryRAMCycleInformation.repr to include __module__ - #1426
    • Changed return type of get_time_set_period and get_time_set_edge to datetime.timedelta - #1397

• NI-SCOPE

  • Added

    • API parity with NI-SCOPE 20.0 by adding the following properties:
      • Session.end_of_acquisition_event_terminal_name
      • Session.end_of_record_event_terminal_name
      • Session.advance_trigger_terminal_name
      • Session.ref_trigger_terminal_name
      • Session.start_trigger_terminal_name
      • Session.ready_for_advance_event_terminal_name
      • Session.ready_for_ref_event_terminal_name
      • Session.ready_for_start_event_terminal_name

nidigital 0.5.0 and 1.2.1 of other modules

• ALL

  • Added

    • Support for chained repeated capabilities. This allows things like

      session.sites[0, 1].pins['PinA', 'PinB'].ppmu_voltage_level = 4

      The repeated capabilities will be expanded to 'site0/PinA,site0/PinB,site1/PinA,site1/PinB'

• NI-Digital Pattern Driver

  • Added

    • get_pattern_pin_names - #1292
    • Support for instruments repeated capability in the following properties - instrument_firmware_revision, serial_number, and timing_absolute_delay - #1228
    • load_specifications_levels_and_timing that allows loading of multiple specs, levels, and/or timing files in a single call - #1392
    • get_channel_names - #1386

  • Changed

    • Change the type of applicable method parameters and properties to enums - #1066
    • get_site_pass_fail returns dictionary where each key is a site number and value is a bool indicating pass/fail - #1297
    • burst_pattern returns dictionary where each key is a site number and value is a bool indicating pass/fail, if wait_until_done is specified as True - #1296
    • Update enum types to match the API in other ADEs - #1330:
      • Update the names of many enum types. See #1330 for the full list.
      • Added WriteStaticPinState enum type and changed the parameter type of write_static method to the newly added enum.
      • Added SoftwareTrigger enum type and changed the parameter type of send_software_edge_trigger method to the newly added enum.
    • Update fetch_history_ram_cycle_information, get_history_ram_sample_count, and is_site_enabled to use sites repeated capability - #1337
    • Rename parameter time_set to time_set_name in applicable time set methods - #1396
    • Modified unload_specifications to allow unloading of one or more specs files in a single call - #1392
    • In load_pin_map, changed parameter name pin_map_file_path to file_path - #1393

  • Removed

    • get_pattern_pin_list, get_pattern_pin_indexes and get_pin_name - #1292
    • get_site_results_site_numbers method and SiteResultType enum - #1298
    • reset_attribute - #1364
    • clear_error - #1366
    • clock_generator_initiate - #1370
    • load_specifications, load_levels, and load_timing - #1392
    • get_channel_name and get_channel_name_from_string - #1386

• NI-TClk

  • Changed

    • Version updated to 1.2.1 to match other released nimi-python modules

nitclk 1.0, nidigital 0.4, and 1.2 of other modules

• ALL

  • Added

    • Zip file per driver for all examples and any helper files
    • Link to zip file on examples documentation
    • Support for Python 3.8

  • Changed

    • import_attribute_configuration_buffer() now accepts list of numbers that are integers less than 255, array.array('b'), bytes, bytearray for configuration buffer - #1013
    • export_attribute_configuration_buffer() now returns bytes as the buffer type - #1013

  • Removed

    • Python 2.7 support - Python Software Foundation version status
    • Python 3.4 support - Python Software Foundation PEP 429
    • PyPy and PyPy3 support #1271

• NI-DCPower

  • Added

    • create_advanced_sequence() - #504
      • Instead of a list of attribute IDs, you pass in a list of property names as strings
      • Includes example to see how to use it
      • Additional methods and properties that were made public (rather than private)
        • create_advanced_sequence_step()
        • delete_advanced_sequence()
        • active_advanced_sequence
        • active_advanced_sequence_step

• NI-FGEN

  • Added

    • nifgen.Session.import_attribute_configuration_file()
    • nifgen.Session.import_attribute_configuration_buffer()
    • nifgen.Session.export_attribute_configuration_file()
    • nifgen.Session.export_attribute_configuration_buffer()
    • nifgen.Session.get_channel_name()

  • Changed

    • nifgen.Session.send_software_edge_trigger() now takes two parameters - trigger and trigger_id
      • See documentation on how to call this function
      • Calling the previous way will log a DeprecationWarning to the warning subsystem
      • #1300

• NI-Digital Pattern Driver

  • Added

    • conditional_jump_triggers and pattern_opcode_events repeated capabilities - #1191, #1192

  • Changed

    • write_source_waveform_site_unique() now supports numpy.array and list as site waveform types
    • fetch_history_ram_cycle_information method now supports fetching multiple History RAM samples in a single API call - #1071
    • Update methods that require pin_list to be passed in, such that pin_list can be passed in via pins repeated capability - #1294

  • Removed

    • Removed redundant (redundant because corresponding properties can be used instead) API methods - #1065
    • Removed programmatic pin map creation API - #1124
    • Removed fetch_history_ram_cycle_pin_data and fetch_history_ram_scan_cycle_number. They are not needed since fetch_history_ram_cycle_information
      was updated to return class instances that contains cycle pin data and scan cycle number - #1071

• NI-TClk

  • Changed

    • Method parameters and properties that are time based now take or return a datetime.timedelta object

  • Removed

    • Ability to pass an integer as a session / session reference
    • nitclk.SessionReference.script_trigger_master_session removed - repeated capabilities not supported on nitclk attributes - #1221

Fix Linux support, Update "Driver Version Tested Against" in documentation

• ALL

  • Changed

    • Fix #1140: Linux support was accidentally broken.
    • Update "Driver Version Tested Against", in documentation, with latest versions installed on nimi-bot.

nidigital improvements and bug fixes, Python 3.8 support, nise to 1.1.4

• ALL

  • Added

    • Support for Python 3.8
    • ViUInt8 is now a valid type in APIs

• NI-Digital Pattern Driver

  • Added

    • fetch_capture_waveform() - returns dictionary { site: data, site: data, ... }
    • write_source_waveform_site_unique() - takes waveform_name and dictionary { site: data, site: data, ... }
    • pins is now a valid repeated capability

  • Changed

    • Fix get/set properties - #1062
    • Removed array-size parameter from apply_tdr_offsets() and write_source_waveform_broadcast_u32() methods - #1070
    • Renamed write_source_waveform_broadcast_u32() to write_source_waveform_broadcast()
    • get_pin_results_pin_information() - returns namedtuple PinInfo(pin_indexes, site_numbers, channel_indexes)

• NI Switch Executive

  • Changed

    • Version updated to 1.1.4 to match other released nimi-python modules

NI-TClk initial release, niSwitchExecutive to 1.0, correctly identify phase, other minor fixes

1.1.3 - 2019-10-21

• ALL

  • Changed

    • The development status in setup.py will be based on the module version:
      • version >= 1.0
        • .devN or .aN - Alpha
        • .bN, .cN or .rcN - Beta
        • <nothing> or .postN - Stable
      • version < 1.0 and version >= 0.5 - Beta
      • version < 0.5 - Alpha
    • Improved installation instructions by not putting a version to pin to. This is confusing in master (what read the docs shows by default) since that version doesn't exist yet.

• NI-DCPower

  • Changed

    • Fix type of sequence_step_delta_time_enabled property - #1015

• NI-FGEN

  • Removed

    • configure_custom_fir_filter_coefficients() - #996 - Should have been removed as part of - #891

• NI-SCOPE

  • Added

    • cable_sense_signal_enable, cable_sense_voltage, cable_sense_mode properties and associated enum
    • enabled_channels, product_code properties
    • glitch_condition, glitch_polarity, glitch_width properties and associated enums
    • runt_high_threshold, runt_low_threshold, runt_polarity, runt_condition, runt_time_high_limit, runt_time_low_limit properties and associated enums
    • width_condition, width_high_threshold, width_low_threshold, width_polarity properties and associated enums

• NI Switch Executive

  • Changed

    • Update to 1.0 - now ready for production use

• NI-Digital Pattern Driver

  • Added

    • Initial support
    • Very basic at this point and subject to change
    • Looking for any testing and/or feedback
    • get_channel_name_from_string()

  • Changed

    • New enums:

      Enum name	Where used
      DigitalEdge	digital_edge_conditional_jump_trigger_edge, digital_edge_start_trigger_edge
      ApertureTimeUnits	ppmu_aperture_time_units, ppmu_configure_aperture_time(units)
      PPMUOutputFunction	ppmu_output_function
      SelectedFunction	selected_function
      TDREndpointTermination	tdr_endpoint_termination
      Signal	export_signal(signal)

    • [Source Breaker] No longer return the "actual size" from functions that use 'ivi-dance-with-a-twist'. This only affects nidigital.

  • Removed

    • Should be private - get_session_state(), get_desired_attribute_*(), ppmu_measure_cached(), read_static_cached(), configure_ref_clock(), disable(),
      get_number_of_vectors(), get_pattern_file_path(), get_pin_type(), get_time_set_compare_edges(), get_time_set_drive_edges(),
      is_pattern_file_modified_since_load(), load_levels_internal(), load_pattern_internal(), load_timing_internal(), uncommit()
    • Need to determine how to generate this function - fetch_capture_waveform_u32()

• NI-TClk

  • Added

    • Initial support

Minor bug fixes

• ALL

  • Changed

    • Switched to slightly different metadata format - Actual True/False instead of strings
    • New internal process for generating metadata

• NI-FGEN

  • Changed

    • Enum values for HardwareState were incorrect - fix to match niFgen.h

• NI-SCOPE

  • Changed

    • Fixed enum values for TIME_HISTOGRAM_MEAN_PLUS_STDEV, TIME_HISTOGRAM_MEAN_PLUS_2_STDEV, HF_REJECT and `LF_REJECT

Bug fixes and updated metadata

• ALL

  • Changed

    • Updated generated metadata
    • Updated "Driver Version Tested Against"
    • Update visatype definitions to work on Linux as well as Windows - #911

• NI-DMM

  • Added

    • import_attribute_configuration_file function
    • export_attribute_configuration_file function
    • import_attribute_configuration_buffer function
    • import_attribute_configuration_buffer function

• NI-DCPower

  • Added

    • import_attribute_configuration_file function
    • export_attribute_configuration_file function
    • import_attribute_configuration_buffer function
    • import_attribute_configuration_buffer function

• NI-SCOPE

  • Added

    • import_attribute_configuration_file function
    • export_attribute_configuration_file function
    • import_attribute_configuration_buffer function
    • import_attribute_configuration_buffer function