Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition is a Menlo Systems THz acquisition and dotTHz HDF5 project management application.

Features

• Menlo ScanControl connection and acquisition
• Baseline, reference, and sample waveform capture
• dotTHz project storage with per-measurement HDF5 groups
• Editable measurement metadata and profile management
• HDF5 tree browsing, attribute editing, and measurement removal
• Waveform and frequency-domain dataset plotting

Installation

Python 3.9 or newer is required.

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

python main.py

Build a Release

Install the build dependency once, then create a portable Windows release:

python -m pip install "pyinstaller>=6"
python build.py

The portable application is written to release/DataAcquisition/, with the executable at release/DataAcquisition/DataAcquisition.exe.

Menlo Systems ScanControl must be running and its remote interface must be available for acquisition.

Project Structure

• catx/: models, repositories, services, and ScanControl integration
• ui/: PyQt6 controllers and Designer .ui files
• resources/: application icons
• projects/: local dotTHz project files

Release metadata is stored in version.json.