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diff --git a/electronics/scpi.txt b/electronics/scpi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea2336f --- /dev/null +++ b/electronics/scpi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ + +A quick general overview of SCPI command syntax is: +http://na.tm.agilent.com/pna/help/latest/Programming/Learning_about_GPIB/The_Rules_and_Syntax_of_SCPI_Commands.htm + +A good, clean C library for implementing end devices: +https://github.com/j123b567/scpi-parser + +The "usual" way to talk to devices which speak SCPI is using VISA libraries, +which are supplied by vendors like National Instruments or Agilent. Some of +these are released for Linux, but they aren't open. There don't seem to be any +non-vaporware Linux VISA libraries which aren't just wrappers around +proprietary drivers; the python-ivi library comes closest? It seems to be best +to simply talk raw serial using PySerial or similar. |