Industry insiders have a tough time deciphering the range of acronyms associated with the automation of test instruments. To help improve your fluency, here is a rundown of the major standards. 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 ...
Unlike box instruments, modular instruments connect directly to I/O buses such as PCIe. Thus, they don't use SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) commands the way ...
October 26, 2011. Agilent Technologies Inc. has released a new PC software tool that provides access to instrument commands for electronic test. The software, Agilent Command Expert, enables fast and ...
LXI, or LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation is a modern control standard for connecting electronics instrumentation which supports ethernet. It replaces the older GPIB standard, giving much better ...