User Guide¶

This section provides in-depth guides for using pybrid to design circuits, run computations, and manage devices from a user's perspective. If you are a developer wanting to modify or extend pybrid, please refer to the Developer section.

Please note that programming with pybrid means low-level programming, compared to assembly language for digital computers. On an analog computer, you are not moving data in and out to/from registers, but you are connecting compute elements, coefficients and input/output signals. Programming (or configuring) an analog computer requires in-depth knowledge of the system's architecture.

After finishing the tutorials in this section and having set up your development environment with pybrid, we recommend learning about the architecture in the architecture guide.

pybrid serves multiple functions in anabrid's software stack. Besides a convenient way to configure devices using Python, pybrid also serves as runtime environment and collection of tools for device maintenance. For a list of functions, refer to the further usage guide.

First steps¶

The Getting Started section takes users step-by-step through installing and setting up pybrid, connecting to their device all the way to defining and running their first circuit. Take this section as a "hands-on" tutorial - many concepts are being mentioned and shown by example that are only explained later in both the hardware architecture and the developer's guide.