devices package¶

Package providing the “devices” infrastructure.

`device` module¶

Module containing the Device base class as well as the RuntimeDevice implementation and some helper functions to access/set devices.

Classes

CurrentDeviceProxy Method proxy for access to the currently active device

Device() Base Device object.

Dummy Dummy object

RuntimeDevice() The default device used in Brian, state variables are stored as numpy arrays in memory.

Functions

auto_target() Automatically chose a code generation target (invoked when the codegen.target preference is set to 'auto'.

get_device() Gets the actve Device object

reinit_and_delete() Calls reinit_devices and additionally deletes the files left behind by the standalone mode in the temporary directory.

reinit_devices() Reinitialize all devices, call Device.activate again on the current device and reset the preferences.

reset_device([device]) Reset to a previously used device.

seed([seed]) Set the seed for the random number generator.

set_device(device[, build_on_run]) Set the device used for simulations.

Objects

active_device The currently active device (set with set_device())

device Proxy object to access methods of the current device

runtime_device The default device used in Brian, state variables are stored as numpy arrays in memory.