This project contains a number of Python-based SCPI programs that I have written to use with various pieces of LXI/GPIB/RS232/USB enabled electronic test equipment. The setup and running of the ...

The vast majority of programmable bench instruments, whether GP-IB or LXI, use a command language known as SCPI, Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation. To understand its purpose, a little ...

One could be excused for thinking sometimes that the concept of connecting devices with other devices for automation purposes is a fairly recent invention. Yet for all the (relatively) recent hype of ...

Frequent readers of Test Cafe know why modular instruments tend to be faster than their box brethren in automated test applications. It has nothing to do with their form factors. It has rarely to do ...

La Center, WA. Signal Hound, a developer of RF test and measurement equipment, has announced the addition of SCPI compatibility for its spectrum analyzers via its Spike software. Spike provides ...