SCPI Devices

The SCPI Devices plugin provides support for various GPIB/SCPI devices.

All devices use a standard SeqZap Stream for communicating with the device.

The SCPI Devices plugin is Connected Device plugin, a Connected Device Tool must be added to the workbench to setup the plugin and connected it to a GPIB device.

SCPI devices are usually connected to the PC by using a GPIB interface such as the National Instruments GPIB-to-USB interfaces supported by the NI VISA tool.

The figure above shows how a SCPI device workbench usually looks. The first workbench tool is a VISA resource using a National Instruments GPIB-to-USB device. The SCPI device is then setup as a Connected Device which use the VISA resource for transmitting GPIB commands. The lamp is the device under test (DUT).