RedDigitizer++

A CAEN C++ wrapper for their C API.

CAEN is an italian company that produces digitizer, power supplies, amplifiers, and many others types of electronics for particle/nuclear physics.

Their code is great, but it is not beginner friendly. This header-only library will help with that. It uses C++17, and it is written for readability and memory safety.

This code also contains several examples that can be used to inspire your own code writing.

PyBind11 wrapper

This code is modified to that it can be compiled into a python library using PyBind11.

How to compile

Using setup.py (Recommended)

1. Make sure CMake, CAENDigitizer, PyBind11 are all installed. CMake can be installed using package managers or from https://cmake.org/download/. CAENDigitizer can be installed from https://www.caen.it/products/caendigitizer-library/. PyBind11 can be installed using conda-forge or pip. See https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installing.html.
2. Activate the conda environment if needed.
3. Inside this repository, run pip install ..
4. Import the library by running import red_caen.

Using CMakeLists.txt

1. Make sure CMake, CAENDigitizer, PyBind11 are all installed.
2. Run ccmake . to generate Makefile.
3. Run make to compile, generating the red_caen.so binary file.
4. Move the binary file to the same folder as the python script, or add the path to the bianry file to PYTHONPATH in environment variables. In python, run import red_caen to import.