Welcome to Digonnet Hardware’s documentation!¶
In order for most of these modules to work, you will need to install the following libaries:
- pyvisa/visa (for most instruments)
- pyserial/serial (for rotation stages)
- pyDAQmx (for NI DAQ units)
For all of the VISA instruments, the GPIB bus address needs to be passed to the class constructor to initialize an object. The bus address can be found by a script similar to the following
>>> import visa
>>> rm = visa.ResourceManager()
>>> rm.list_resources()
Several of the most-used instruments in the lab have already been giving names in the __init__.py file. These default instruments can be loaded into the
main script namespace (as well as other scripts) by running
>>> from hardware import *