PyICe

PyICe is a comprehensive Python framework designed specifically for lab automation. It can interact with most lab instruments, treating each aspect of a given instrument as an individual “channel”. The channel model reduces even the most complex instruments to a collection of scalars that can be monitored and controlled by test scripts, a graphical user interface, or logged into an SQLite database or Excel worksheet.

A second distinct aspect of the project is used to interact with internal IC memory in the same way as other test equipment channels so that the DUT memory and outside electrical conditions can be monitored, controlled, and logged synchronously. This part of the project also includes numerous utilites to generate both publicly distributable libraries and documentation, and private IC synthesis and test files, all from a single common XML-based register map description. Register maps can be imported from proprietary XML, Yoda JSON, or industry-standard IP-XACT (IEEE 1685-2014 / SPIRIT 1685-2009) files via twi_instrument.populate_from_ipxact() and spiInstrument.from_ipxact().

IP-XACT Register Map Import

PyICe can import register maps directly from IP-XACT XML files (IEEE 1685-2014 / SPIRIT 1685-2009).

Command-line conversion (no Python required):

python -m PyICe.ipxact_parser my_device.xml -o my_device_regmap.json

Python — direct import (skip JSON):

from PyICe.twi_instrument import twi_instrument

inst = twi_instrument(interface)
inst.populate_from_ipxact("my_device.xml", addr7=0x50)

Python — convert to JSON first, then import:

from PyICe.ipxact_parser import ipxact_to_pyice_json

ipxact_to_pyice_json("my_device.xml", output_file="my_device_regmap.json")

See python -m PyICe.ipxact_parser --help for all CLI options, or help(PyICe.ipxact_parser) for the full module walkthrough.

For more detailed documentation, please go here

PyICe contributors, please go here for install instructions

PyICe user install instructions

To install PyICe from PyPI, run the command:

pip install pyice-adi