Introducing waveforms(functions) to the LiveNIDaq

[AhmetCanSolak]

FEATURE: Introducing waveforms(functions) to the LiveNIDaq

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently the LiveNIDaq API offers to users a way to set certain voltage values to desired analog channel at a time. It can be found here: https://github.com/royerlab/coPylot/blob/f99a3b7ea654fb8e7d5dd2f213cde6c5ab726c38/copylot/hardware/ni_daq/live_nidaq.py#L33 . Users can implement their own functions using this API to generate certain signal waveforms and this can be exhausting and error prone. Here I like to propose providing common waveforms within coPylot so we can implement and test it in one-place for all.

Describe the solution you'd like

Final implementation I like to see consist of functions for each unique waveform that can stream the required voltages for the desired waveform with given sampling rate and characteristics. These can be member functions to existing LiveNIDaq class for now and we can consider later if they deserve a separate module. I like to see following waveforms (for now, and the list below can be extended at any time):

• sine
• square
• ramp