High-speed plotting using Teechart for UWP

[Anaesthesia]

I need to plot an ECG waveform.

The signal is captured at 300 Hz in 1 second (300 value) records.

I want to display it using a refresh rate of 25 Hz (40 mSec), plotting 12 values on each cycle.

My X axis has a maximum value of 3000 (10 secs).

I'm using 'Fastline'.

My prototype starts well enough, but gets progressively slower as more points are added. - Even running on a high-end PC it takes over a minute to accumulate 3000 data points.

Is high-speed plotting possible in UWP?

[Christopher]

Is high-speed plotting possible in UWP?

I've just run a test with code such as this:

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    public MainPage()
    {
      this.InitializeComponent();
      CreateChart();
      InitializeChart();
    }


    TChart tChart1;
    DispatcherTimer timer = new DispatcherTimer();
    private void CreateChart()
    {
      Utils.CalcFramesPerSecond = true;
      tChart1 = new TChart();
      Grid1.Children.Add(tChart1);

      timer.Tick += Timer_Tick;
      timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(10);
    }

    private void Timer_Tick(object sender, object e)
    {
      tChart1[0].FillSampleValues();
      tChart1.Header.Text = Utils.FramesPerSecond.ToString();
    }

    private void InitializeChart()
    {
      tChart1.Aspect.View3D = false;
      tChart1.Aspect.GestureOptions = Steema.TeeChart.Store.Drawing.Aspect.Gestures.None;
      Line line = new Line(tChart1.Chart);
      timer.Start();
    }

On this machine this gives me peak FPS of about 13, which compares to the FPS of about 64 using similar code under Windows Forms. Looking at the results of a performance profiling session suggests to me that the difference in speed is not due to TeeChart code but is due to the UWP framework itself, e.g.

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I think therefore that TeeChart.UWP is not suitable for very high speed plotting. However, if you are happy with FPS of 10 then TeeChart.UWP can easily be used - when adding points to a series in realtime, please be aware that points will accumulate in it which will affect performance. As a countermeasure you can eliminate series points when the series count reaches a certain number.

[Anaesthesia]

Dear Christopher,

Thanks for this,

I was rather afraid it was the case