lasp/README.md

# Library for Acoustic Signal Processing

Welcome to LASP: Library for Acoustic Signal Processing. LASP is a C library
with a Python interface which is supposed to process (multi-) microphone
acoustic data in real time on a PC and output results.

The main goal of this library will be the processing of data from an
array of microphones real time, on a Raspberry PI. At the point in
time of this writing, we are yet unsure whether the Raspberry PI will
have enough computational power to this end, but may be by the time it
is finished, we have a new faster generation :).

Current features that are implemented:
- Compile-time determination of the floating-point accuracy (32/64 bit)
- Fast convolution FIR filter implementation
- Sample rate decimation by an integer factor of 4.
- Octave filterbank FIR filters designed to comply with IEC 61260
  (1995).
- Averaged power spectra and power spectral density determination
  using Welch' method. Taper functions of Hann, Hamming, Bartlett and
  Blackman are provided.
- A thread-safe job queue including routines to create worker threads.
- Several linear algebra routines (wrappers around BLAS and LAPACK).
- A nice debug tracer implementation
- Third octave filter bank FIR filters designed to comply with IEC 61260
  (1995).
- Slow and fast time updates of (A/C/Z) weighted sound pressure levels

Future features (wish-list)
- Conventional and delay-and-sum beam-forming algorithms

For now, the source code is well-documented but it requires some
additional documentation (the math behind it). This will be published
in a sister repository (https://code.ascee.nl/ascee/lasp-doc).

If you have any question(s), please feel free to contact us: info@ascee.nl.


# Building from source

Two commands that install all requirements (for Ubuntu / Linux Mint)

- `pip install scipy numpy build scikit-build appdirs`
- `sudo apt install libusb-dev

## Runtime dependencies (Linux)

- FFTW (For really fast FFT's). If compiled with Ffftpack, this library is not
  required.
- libUlDAQ, for the Measurement Computing DT9837A USB DAQ box
    - GNU Autotools, for compiling libUlDAQ
- RtAudio, for Audio DAQ backends
- libusb
- BLAS (OpenBLAS, other).
- RtAudio (optional)
- UlDaq (optional)



## Build dependencies

Optional dependencies, which can be turned ON/OFF using CMake:

- Build tools: compiler [http://cmake.org](CMake), the Python packages:
    - Scipy
    - Numpy
    - py-build-cmake
    - appdirs
    These can all be installed using:

- The following Python packages need also be available:
  - `Scipy` (which includes Numpy). Install with `sudo apt install
    python3-scipy`, or `pacman -S scipy`.
  - `appdirs`, which can be grabbed from [https://pypi.org](Pypi)



## Compilation of LASP

### Archlinux

Compiling the code on Archlinux requires the following packages to be available:

- openblas-lapack (AUR)
- Python>=3.7
- Numpy (Python-numpy)
- Cython

### Ubuntu / Linux Mint

*Only tested with Linux Mint 18.04*, we require the following packages for
compilation:

- build-essential
- cython
- python3-numpy
- libopenblas
- libclalsadrv-dev
- libopenblas-base
- libopenblas-dev