Welcome to the KAT Communication Protocol’s documentation!

KATCP is a simple ASCII communication protocol layered on top of TCP/IP.

It is developed as a part of the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT) project and used at KAT for the monitoring and control of hardware devices.

The protocol specification NRF-KAT7-6.0-IFCE-002-Rev5-1.pdf is maintained as an internal memo. The latest version is Rev5.1. The specification source is hosted here: https://github.com/ska-sa/katcp-guidelines

Contents

• Release Notes
  • 0.9.3
  • 0.9.2
  • 0.9.1
  • 0.9.0
  • 0.8.0
  • 0.7.2
  • 0.7.1
  • 0.7.0
  • 0.6.4
  • 0.6.3
  • 0.6.2
  • 0.6.1
  • 0.6.0
  • 0.5.5
  • 0.5.4
  • 0.5.3
  • 0.5.2
  • 0.5.1
  • 0.5.0
  • 0.5.0a0
• Core API
  • Client
  • Server
  • High Level Clients
  • Message Parsing
  • Other
  • Version Information
• Kattypes
• Low level client API (client)
• Concrete Intermediate-level KATCP Client API (inspecting_client)
• Abstract High-level KATCP Client API (resource)
• Concrete High-level KATCP Client API (resource_client)
• Sampling
• KATCP Server API (server)
• Tutorial
  • Installing the Python Katcp Library
  • Usage
  • Backwards Compatibility
• How to Contribute
  • Workflow
  • reStructuredText and Sphinx
  • Source code standard
  • Releasing a new version

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page