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 ...

In this second of an occasional series on editorials from Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News, I look at the instrumentation programming language known as Standard Commands for Programmable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I work in an RF lab where part of the time we test and evaluate radios. To have the computers do the tedious, mundane work, data collection is automated by making extensive use of SCPI commands ...

The Series 7 DPO oscilloscope from Tektronix is the company’s first new high-end model in years. It uses an optical port to ...