Introduction

lucipy is a Python3 package and demonsrator code to get started with the LUCIDAC analog-digital hybrid computer. With this library, users can program the network-enabled analog computer straight from the Python programming language. Lucipy empowers users to integrate analog computers as solvers into their favourite scientific python environment. In fact the code is focussed on working with interactively in IPython or Jupyter. This puts it into contrast to the pybrid code. See Comparison with pybrid for details.

Lucipy is still in active development and currently provides

• the simple hybrid controller class LUCIDAC

• basic syntactic sugar for route-based analog circuit programming with Circuit

• Various example codes (basically the analog paradigm application notes)

• Routines for device autodiscovery with zeroconf and USB Serial detection

The code was formerly known as “Synchronous Hybrid Controller Python Client for REDAC/LUCIDAC” (shcpy) and was primarily used for testing protocol extensions and new firmware features. For instance, the repo also contains an Over-The-Air demo firmware updater.