Easily generate square/triangle/sawtooth/inverse sawtooth waveform data in Python using UliEngineering

In a previous post, I’ve detailed how to generate sine/cosine wave data with frequency, amplitude, offset, phase shift and time offset using only a single line of code.

This post extends this approach by showing how to generate square wave, triangle wave, sawtooth wave and inverse sawtooth wave data - still in only one line of code.

All of the parameters, including frequency, amplitude, offset, phase shift and time offset apply for those functions as well - see the previous post for details and examples for those parameters.

We are using the UliEngineering library, more specifically the UliEngineering.SignalProcessing.Simulation package:

How to install UliEngineering

UliEngineering is a Python 3 only library. Install using pip:

sudo pip3 install -U UliEngineering

Square wave

from UliEngineering.SignalProcessing.Simulation import square_wave

data = square_wave(frequency=10.0, samplerate=10e3)

Triangle wave

from UliEngineering.SignalProcessing.Simulation import triangle_wave

data = triangle_wave(frequency=10.0, samplerate=10e3)

Sawtooth wave

from UliEngineering.SignalProcessing.Simulation import sawtooth

data = sawtooth(frequency=10.0, samplerate=10e3)

Inverse sawtooth wave

from UliEngineering.SignalProcessing.Simulation import inverse_sawtooth

data = inverse_sawtooth(frequency=10.0, samplerate=10e3)

Plotting code

This code was used to generate the plots for this post in Jupyter:

%matplotlib inline
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.style.use("ggplot")

from UliEngineering.SignalProcessing.Simulation import square_wave

data = square_wave(frequency=10.0, samplerate=10e3)

# set_size_inches(20, 10) to make it even larger!
plt.gcf().set_size_inches(10, 5)
plt.plot(data, label="original")
plt.savefig("/dev/shm/square-wave.svg")