Spectrum instrumentation ADC as fast_counter hardware

[takuya-ulm]

Description

AD converter from spectrum instrumentation is implemented as fast_counter hardware.

Motivation and Context

AD card from spectrum instrumentation is newly implemented.
The class structure is organized for robustness.

How Has This Been Tested?

This hardware is tested in the pulsed toolchain.
This change does not affect the rest of the code.

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Types of changes

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Breaking change (Causes existing functionality to not work as expected)

Checklist:

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• I have documented my changes in /docs/changelog.md.
• My change requires additional/updated documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have added/updated the config example for any module docstrings as necessary.
• I have checked that the change does not contain obvious errors
  (syntax, indentation, mutable default values, etc.).
• I have tested my changes using 'Load all modules' on the default dummy configuration.
• All changed Jupyter notebooks have been stripped of their output cells.

[TobiasSpohn]

Hi Takuya,

Great code. I added some small suggestions in the comments.
In my comments about the while-loops, making the thread unresponsive: It might be okay to leave it as is, if the time spent in the loop is very short, so the thread is not blocked for too long.

[Neverhorst]

Where does the pyspcm dependency come from? It is not listed in setup.py.
Is this derivative work of this project? If so, this needs proper attribution and copyright/license disclaimers.

[takuya-ulm]

Where does the pyspcm dependency come from? It is not listed in setup.py. Is this derivative work of this project? If so, this needs proper attribution and copyright/license disclaimers.

Spectrum instrumentation originally distributed some python codes with an USB stick. Recently, they shared the codes on github with MIT license:
https://github.com/SpectrumInstrumentation/spcm
Now I added this package in setup.py and modified the imports.

[takuya-ulm]

@TobiasSpohn

Thank you for your reviewing. I modified the codes and replied to your comments.
Can you have a look on them?

[TobiasSpohn]

Thanks for the modified code, it looks good from my side. I only have the one comment in time_series_gui.py, which I think might be a syntax error.

[TobiasSpohn]

Is this "rev" supposed to be here?

[timoML]

This thread lock looks sketchy. It is not taken when writing to the same data in DataProcess.