qutech/qupulse: qupulse 0.5

General:

• Improve TimeType consistency by leveraging str(float) for rounding by default.
• Add support for sympy==1.5
• Add volatile parameters. Repetition counts can now be changed at runtime in some cases (useful for DNP). See volatile kwarg of create_program

Hardware:

• Add a measure_program method to the DAC interface. This method is used by the QCoDeS integration.
• Add a set_measurement_mask to DAC interface. This method is used by the QCoDeS integration.
• Add a get_sample_times util method to share code for exact and fast sample time calculation
• Add a driver for Tektronix AWG5000/7000
• Add a driver for Zurich Instruments HDAWG
• Warn the user if waveforms need to be concatenated to be compatible with hardware requirements.

Pulse Templates:

• Add __repr__ and __format__ for easier inspection
• MappingPulseTemplate:
  • allow_partial_parameter_mapping is now True as a default. The default can be changed with the class variable MappingPulseTemplate.ALLOW_PARTIAL_PARAMETER_MAPPING.
  • Add specializations for map_parameters because the auto-inference of the return type did not work for empty input.
  • Channels mapped to None are now dropped
• Add simple arithmetic operations for pulse templates
  • offset and scaling with scalars
  • addition with atomic pulse templates

Expressions:

• Expressions can now be formatted as floats if they do not have free variables

Parameters:

• Replace Parameter class with Scope
• Parameter class is now deprecated

Backward incompatible changes:

• Removed deprecated classes:
  • Sequencer: Replaced by PulseTemplate.create_program method
  • Condition: Never used
  • InstructionBlock: Old representation of programs. Replaced by Loop
  • MultiChannelProgram: Was required in the instruction block framework