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 ...

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 ...

La Center, WA. Signal Hound, a developer of RF test and measurement equipment, has announced the addition of SCPI compatibility for its spectrum analyzers via its Spike software. Spike provides ...

One could be excused for thinking sometimes that the concept of connecting devices with other devices for automation purposes is a fairly recent invention. Yet for all the (relatively) recent hype of ...

Frequent readers of Test Cafe know why modular instruments tend to be faster than their box brethren in automated test applications. It has nothing to do with their form factors. It has rarely to do ...