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| 1 .. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
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| 3 ============== | |
| 4 Presentation | |
| 5 ============== | |
| 6 | |
| 7 pygpibtoolkit_ is a Python_ toolkit for talking with GPIB devices. It consist | |
| 8 in a set of python modules (low-level and some more high-level) in | |
| 9 order to ease writing python code to play with GPIB devices. | |
| 10 There are also some utility commands written using this library. | |
| 11 | |
| 12 The aim of the project is to have an infrastructure that make it easy | |
| 13 to write code to command/interact with GPIB-controlled devices, and, | |
| 14 as a corrolary, make it easy to write "description" code for specific | |
| 15 test equipments. | |
| 16 | |
| 17 Features | |
| 18 ======== | |
| 19 | |
| 20 - Control GPIB devices using cheap Prologix_ USB-GPIB devices using a | |
| 21 "high" level API; some other GPIB backends could be implemented, but | |
| 22 I for now only have a Prologix USB bundle... | |
| 23 | |
| 24 - A simple (and incomplete) GPIB plotter is available. | |
| 25 | |
| 26 - Infrastructure to "easily" create description of a specific test | |
| 27 equipment. | |
| 28 | |
| 29 Known test equipment | |
| 30 ==================== | |
| 31 | |
| 32 For now, the following test equipment have been (partially) | |
| 33 implemented: | |
| 34 | |
| 35 - HP 3562A/3563A Dynamic Signal Analyzer | |
| 36 - Simple GPIB plotter | |
| 37 | |
| 38 The devices I should implement soon (well, ASAP): | |
| 39 | |
| 40 - HP 8904A Signal Synthetizer | |
| 41 - HP ???? Meter | |
| 42 | |
| 43 | |
| 44 .. _pygpibtoolkit: http://www.logilab.org/pygpibtoolkit | |
| 45 .. _Prologix: http://www.prologix.com | |
| 46 .. _Python: http://www.python.org |
