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  Agilent E3631A Power Supply Accuracy

  During the course of my thesis, the need for distraction – plus the need to save some labor inspired me to develop automated testing methods. I wrote a little previously about setting up PyVISA on OSX, but didn’t show any real examples of its use. Here, as a proof of concept, I measure the linearity […]

  Posted: April 15th, 2013 ˑ  2 Comments
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  PyVISA on OSX

  So after some persistance, I’ve managed to get PyVISA working under OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on a late 2008 MacBook Pro. Download and install NI VISA 5.1.2 for OSX In your home directory, create the file .pyvisarc with the contents [Paths] VISA library: /Library/Frameworks/VISA.framework/VISA Download and untar PyVISA 1.4 Install as root with easy_install […]

  Posted: July 13th, 2012 ˑ  3 Comments
  Filled under: Resource