Abstract: This work aims to create desktop applications to enable virtual access and control to prominent lab equipment like signal generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc. The developed ...

XyphroLabs’s UsbGpib is an open-source hardware, inexpensive, and portable USB to GPIB adapter aiming to provide “access to legacy GPIB/IEEE-488 instruments using contemporary hardware and software, ...

It used to be only high-end test equipment that had some sort of remote control port. These days, though, they are quite common. Historically, test gear used IEEE-488 (also known as GPIB or, from the ...

I am trying to stream data from a measurement device (using a Teensy 4.1) over USB to my computer using the raw binary data as-recorded from the ADC. Why raw data and not ascii or some other encoded ...

Python is powerful, extendable, intuitive programming language that you can use to automate test equipment. PyVISA is one of Python’s many libraries that extend its power to communicate with ...

PyVISA-py ===== A PyVISA backend that implements a large part of the "Virtual Instrument Software Architecture" (VISA_) in pure Python (with the help of some nice cross platform libraries python ...

There was a time when instruments sporting a GPIB connector (General Purpose Interface Bus) for computer control on their back panels were expensive and exotic devices, unlikely to be found on the ...