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 ...
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 ...
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 ...