# PymePix: A python library for SPIDR readout of Timepix3

## TL;DR

PymePix is a Python library that simplifies control, data acquisition, and visualization for Timepix3-SPIDR hardware, enabling easier integration into scientific workflows and interactive Python environments.

## Contribution

It introduces a flexible, high-performance Python library with extensible data pipelines for Timepix3-SPIDR, including example tools for control and data visualization.

## Key findings

- Reduces coding effort for Timepix3 data handling
- Provides extensible data pipeline for user customization
- Includes practical tools for acquisition and visualization

## Abstract

PymePix is a new Python 3 library that provides control and acquisition for the Timepix3-SPIDR hardware. The rich set of data-structures and intuitive routines reduces time and coding effort to quickly configure, acquire, and visualize data from Timepix3. The highly extensible high-performance data-pipeline allows for alteration of the Timepix3 datastream into a form that is convinient for the user. This library is intended to be easily inserted into a standard scientific software stack as well as to allow for more direct interaction of Timepix3 with interactive flavors of Python. Included with the library are two example programs using PymePix: pymepix-acq is a command line control and acquisition program that can capture UDP packets and decode them into pixels and triggers. The second is PymePix-Viewer, an online control and data-acquisition program for general use, but with features geared toward mass-spectroscopy and ion imaging.