Tired of squinting at the small numbers on the oscilloscope display, [Alfred] aka [Gaze@] decided to take matters into his own hands and wrote yet another tool to remotely view images from a Rigol ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs) are essential in RF engineering, and Python has become a go-to language for automating their control, measurement, and analysis. From sending SCPI commands via PyVISA ...

Many engineers write code to automate instruments and collect data. While you can use commercially available programming languages, you can also use open-source software tools to write your automation ...