PyVISA

PyVISA: the Python instrumentation package - Published in JOSS (2023)

https://github.com/pyvisa/pyvisa

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A Python package with bindings to the "Virtual Instrument Software Architecture" VISA library, in order to control measurement devices and test equipment via GPIB, RS232, or USB.

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Language: Python
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Homepage: https://pyvisa.readthedocs.io
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A Python package for support of the "Virtual Instrument Software
Architecture" (VISA), in order to control measurement devices and
test equipment via GPIB, RS232, Ethernet or USB.

Description
-----------

The programming of measurement instruments can be real pain. There are many
different protocols, sent over many different interfaces and bus systems
(GPIB, RS232, USB). For every programming language you want to use, you have to
find libraries that support both your device and its bus system.

In order to ease this unfortunate situation, the Virtual Instrument Software
Architecture (VISA_) specification was defined in the middle of the 90's. Today
VISA is implemented on all significant operating systems. A couple of vendors
offer VISA libraries, partly with free download. These libraries work together
with arbitrary peripheral devices, although they may be limited to certain
interface devices, such as the vendor’s GPIB card.

The VISA specification has explicit bindings to Visual Basic, C, and G
(LabVIEW’s graphical language). Python can be used to call functions from a
VISA shared library (`.dll`, `.so`, `.dylib`) allowing to directly leverage the
standard implementations. In addition, Python can be used to directly access
most bus systems used by instruments which is why one can envision to implement
the VISA standard directly in Python (see the `PyVISA-Py`_ project for more
details). PyVISA is both a Python wrapper for VISA shared libraries but
can also serve as a front-end for other VISA implementation such as
`PyVISA-Py`_.

.. _VISA: http://www.ivifoundation.org/specifications/default.aspx
.. _`PyVISA-Py`: http://pyvisa-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

VISA and Python
---------------

Python has a couple of features that make it very interesting for controlling
instruments:

- Python is an easy-to-learn scripting language with short development cycles.
- It represents a high abstraction level [2], which perfectly blends with the
abstraction level of measurement programs.
- It has a rich set of native libraries, including numerical and plotting
modules for data analysis and visualisation.
- A large set of books (in many languages) and on-line publications is
available.

Requirements
------------

- Python (tested with 3.10+)
- VISA (tested with NI-VISA 17.5, Win7, from www.ni.com/visa and Keysight-VISA )

Installation
--------------

Using pip:

$ pip install pyvisa

or easy_install:

$ easy_install pyvisa

or download and unzip the source distribution file and:

$ python setup.py install

Documentation
--------------

The documentation can be read online at https://pyvisa.readthedocs.org

Citing
------

If you are using this package, you can cite the `PyVISA publication`_

Grecco et al., (2023). PyVISA: the Python instrumentation package. Journal of Open Source
Software, 8(84), 5304, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05304

.. _`PyVISA publication`: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05304#

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Repositories: 4
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JOSS Publication

PyVISA: the Python instrumentation package

Published

April 27, 2023

DOI

10.21105/joss.05304

Volume 8, Issue 84, Page 5304

Authors

Hernán E. Grecco

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física. Buenos Aires, Argentina., CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires (IFIBA). Buenos Aires, Argentina

Matthieu C. Dartiailh

Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole Normale Supérieure. Paris, France, Center for Quantum Phenomena, New York University. New-York, NY, USA, Institut Néel, CNRS. Grenoble, France

Gregor Thalhammer-Thurner

Institute for Biomedical Physics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

Torsten Bronger

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (ROR 02nv7yv05). Jülich, Germany

Florian Bauer

Independent Researcher, Germany

Editor

Matthew Feickert

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title: "PyVISA"
version: 1.13.0
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7868199
date-released: 2022-12-22
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  title: "PyVISA: the Python instrumentation package"
  issue: 84
  volume: 8
  year: 2023

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pypi.org: pyvisa

Python VISA bindings for GPIB, RS232, TCPIP and USB instruments

Documentation: https://pyvisa.readthedocs.io/
License: The MIT License Copyright (c) 2005-2024 PyVISA Authors and contributors. See AUTHORS Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Latest release: 1.15.0
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