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Gerhard Sittig d2cc60bd45 korad-kaxxxxp: speed up scan process, rephrase response read routine 
The Korad protocol relies on unterminated request and response strings,
which works well enough for fixed length acquisition and status queries.
But the variable length replies to identification requests suffered from
an implementation detail in the receive routine. A large timeout must be
used because supported devices reportedly are slow to respond. There is
no simple yet robust condition to detect the response's completion. The
scan code must prepare for the maximum response length across the set of
supported devices. Unfortunately the maximum amount of time was spent
waiting for the response to occupy the provided response buffer, before
a long total timeout expired.

Rework the korad driver's helper routine which gets a variable length
non-terminated text string. Keep the long initial timeout, and keep
iterating in that initial phase to quickly detect when response data
became available. But terminate the read sequence after a shorter period
without receive data after some initial receive data was seen. Assume
that identification responses get transferred at wire speed and without
additional delays beyond bitrate expectations. Acquisition and status
responses shall not be affected by this change.

This speeds up the scan for devices from roughly 5s to some 0.1s on
newer devices (KA3005P v5.5) and 0.5s on older devices (KA3005P V2.0).

This commit also addresses an issue in the response text termination,
where partial responses contained undefined data. The previous version's
return value was unspecific: Negative for fatal errors, but either zero
or non-zero for successful reads, with no way for callers to learn about
the received amount of data. The rephrased version always returns the
amount of received data, and adds internal documentation which discusses
the implementation's constraints and the motivation for the approach.

This is a modified version of the initial implementation which was
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contrib udev: Add GW-Instek GDM-9061 VID/PID. 2020-08-17 18:35:17 +02:00
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m4 build: Replace AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 with latest AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX 2016-05-14 00:36:43 +02:00
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README bindings/ruby: Bump minimum requirement to Ruby 2.5.0. 2020-07-18 17:37:17 +02:00
README.devices doc: update README.devices for GWInstek VCP (CP210x in disguise) 2020-08-25 19:38:23 +02:00
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README 

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README
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The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform,
Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various
device types (such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and more).

libsigrok is a shared library written in C which provides the basic API
for talking to hardware and reading/writing the acquired data into various
input/output file formats.


Status
------

libsigrok is in a usable state and has had official tarball releases.

While the API can change from release to release, this will always be
properly documented and reflected in the package version number and
in the shared library / libtool / .so-file version numbers.

However, there are _NO_ guarantees at all for stable APIs in git snapshots!
Distro packagers should only use released tarballs (no git snapshots).


Requirements
------------

Requirements for the C library:

 - git (only needed when building from git)
 - gcc (>= 4.0) or clang
 - make
 - autoconf >= 2.63 (only needed when building from git)
 - automake >= 1.11 (only needed when building from git)
 - libtool (only needed when building from git)
 - pkg-config >= 0.22
 - libglib >= 2.32.0
 - libzip >= 0.10
 - libserialport >= 0.1.1 (optional, used by some drivers)
 - librevisa >= 0.0.20130412 (optional, used by some drivers)
 - libusb-1.0 >= 1.0.16 (optional, used by some drivers)
 - hidapi >= 0.8.0 (optional, used for some HID based "serial cables")
 - bluez/libbluetooth >= 4.0 (optional, used for Bluetooth/BLE communication)
 - libftdi1 >= 1.0 (optional, used by some drivers)
 - libgpib (optional, used by some drivers)
 - libieee1284 (optional, used by some drivers)
 - libgio >= 2.32.0 (optional, used by some drivers)
 - check >= 0.9.4 (optional, only needed to run unit tests)
 - doxygen (optional, only needed for the C API docs)
 - graphviz (optional, only needed for the C API docs)

Requirements for the C++ bindings:

 - libsigrok >= 0.4.0 (the libsigrok C library, see above)
 - A C++ compiler with C++11 support (-std=c++11 option), e.g.
   - g++ (>= 4.8.1)
   - clang++ (>= 3.3)
 - autoconf-archive (only needed when building from git)
 - doxygen (required for building the bindings, not only for C++ API docs!)
 - graphviz (optional, only needed for the C++ API docs)
 - Python (2 or 3) executable (development files are not needed)
 - glibmm-2.4 (>= 2.32.0)

Requirements for the Python bindings:

 - libsigrokcxx >= 0.4.0 (the libsigrok C++ bindings, see above)
 - Python >= 2.7 or Python >= 3 (including development files!)
 - Python setuptools (for Python 2 or 3)
 - pygobject >= 3.0.0 (for Python 2 or 3), a.k.a python-gi
 - numpy (for Python 2 or 3)
 - SWIG >= 2.0.0
 - doxygen (optional, only needed for the Python API docs)
 - graphviz (optional, only needed for the Python API docs)
 - doxypy (optional, only needed for the Python API docs)

Requirements for the Ruby bindings:

 - libsigrokcxx >= 0.4.0 (the libsigrok C++ bindings, see above)
 - Ruby >= 2.5.0 (including development files!)
 - SWIG >= 3.0.8
 - YARD (optional, only needed for the Ruby API docs)

Requirements for the Java bindings:

 - libsigrokcxx >= 0.4.0 (the libsigrok C++ bindings, see above)
 - SWIG >= 2.0.0
 - Java JDK (for JNI includes and the javac/jar binaries)
 - doxygen (optional, only needed for the Java API docs)
 - graphviz (optional, only needed for the Java API docs)


Building and installing
-----------------------

In order to get the libsigrok source code and build it, run:

 $ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrok
 $ cd libsigrok
 $ ./autogen.sh
 $ ./configure
 $ make

For installing libsigrok:

 $ make install

See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions:

 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building

Please also check the following wiki page in case you encounter any issues:

 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building#FAQ


Device-specific issues
----------------------

Please check README.devices for some notes and hints about device- or
driver-specific issues to be aware of.


Firmware
--------

Some devices supported by libsigrok need a firmware to be uploaded before the
device can be used. See README.devices for details.


Copyright and license
---------------------

libsigrok is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(GPL), version 3 or later.

While some individual source code files are licensed under the GPLv2+, and
some files are licensed under the GPLv3+, this doesn't change the fact that
the library as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.

Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.


Mailing list
------------

 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel


IRC
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You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.


Website
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 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libsigrok