Pulse Programmer

Hartmut says that they just started using the sequencer in the Berkeley ion trap experiment last week. I can only assume nothing blew up, yet. In honor of this occasion, I have added a link to UC Berkeley as the sixth participating group of the pulse programmer project:

http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/haeffner/

Welcome, Hartmut, Soenke, Hong, Michael, and other students I haven't met yet!

Hey everyone, I've decided to hold a pulse programming conference in Santa Fe on the weekend of February 18th - 21st. Now, I know what you're thinking, this is pretty short notice, but I know you are resourceful and you'll find a way to make this happen.

There will be a raffle for a free sequencer board, live demonstrations with an oscilloscope, and drunken conversations about automating experiments. A guaranteed good time. See you there!

The first sequencer firmware build in three years, now available thanks to Rob McClure. I'm posting the link here because my PHP script on the project website doesn't work with the new RSS feeds.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pulse-sequencer/files/sequencer-firmware/0.32/

This is a development release only to test Quartus 9.x compilers and the input counting features of pcp4. It is *not* meant for production use. Please read the release notes before using.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pulse-sequencer/files/sequencer-firmware/0.32/sequencer-firmware-0_32-release-notes.txt/download

Testing and feedback is welcome. pcp4 is meant to be backward-compatible with pcp1. Look forward to related releases for the Python compiler to generate the new icnt binary instruction, and all-new documentation!

Get 'em while they're hot. Let me know if you want one. There is an e-mail link at the bottom of the homepage, or you can message me if you are a SourceForge user:

http://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=474235

The centroid-XY file is also called a "pick-and-place" file since it is used to program pick-and-place machines for automated assembly.

Since it is required by Screaming Circuits for the latest run of sequencer boards, I have added this file to the package sequencer-hardware, Rev. C

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pulse-sequencer/files/sequencer-hardware/Revision%20C/Pick%20Place%20for%20sequencer.txt/download