MiniPIX / PIXet Control Documentation

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This documentation describes the MiniPIX control API based on MiniPixCtrl in pixet_ctrl.py.

MiniPixCtrl is a high-level wrapper that directly uses pypixet, the PIXet Pro Python API. Applications can perform connection management, detector configuration, exposure, and frame acquisition through Python methods without directly manipulating low-level PIXet SDK objects.

• Quick start — Python control
• Architecture
• Python API — MiniPixCtrl
• gRPC integration: design and implementation status
• Python API over gRPC

The current implementation covers:

• Starting and shutting down the PIXet core.

• Connecting to the first detector.

• Detecting FileDevice 0 and treating the absence of a physical detector as a connection failure.

• Setting the acquisition mode for all pixels.

• Configuring the threshold, Timepix clock, and bias voltage.

• Acquiring ordinary frames through doSimpleAcquisition().

• Converting frames retained in PIXet’s internal memory into Python dictionaries.

Methods that have not yet been implemented are identified in the API documentation.