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- David Douard <david.douard@logilab.fr>
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Small fixes to HPGL plotter (be a little bit more robust)
.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ============== Presentation ============== pygpibtoolkit_ is a Python_ toolkit for talking with GPIB devices. It consist in a set of python modules (low-level and some more high-level) in order to ease writing python code to play with GPIB devices. There are also some utility commands and GUI tools written using this library (and PyQt4 for GUI parts). The aim of the project is to have an infrastructure that make it easy to write code to command/interact with GPIB-controlled devices, and, as a corrolary, make it easy to write "description" code for specific test equipments. Features ======== - Control GPIB devices using cheap Prologix_ USB-GPIB devices using a "high" level API; some other GPIB backends could be implemented, but I for now only have a Prologix USB bundle... - A simple (and incomplete) GPIB plotter is available. - Infrastructure to "easily" create description of a specific test equipment. Known test equipment ==================== For now, the following test equipment have been (partially) implemented: - HP 3562A/3563A Dynamic Signal Analyzer - Simple GPIB plotter The devices I should implement soon (well, ASAP): - HP 8904A Signal Synthetizer - HP 3456A Meter .. _pygpibtoolkit: http://www.logilab.org/project/pygpibtoolkit .. _Prologix: http://www.prologix.com .. _Python: http://www.python.org
