With over a million users worldwide, Python programming language is widely used to control and program various test and measurement instruments, be it a single instrument or a system with various instruments. This series of tutorials, “How to Control Tabor AWGs with Python”, will provide step by step instructions and various examples of how to use Python in conjunction with Tabor Arbitrary Waveform Generators.
In this tutorial, we will give a quick start guide on how you can communicate with the Tabor AWG using Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI). SCPI commands are an ASCII-based set of commands for reading and writing instrument settings.
In the previous tutorial, we have shown how to communicate with Tabor AWG using SCPI commands. Another way is by creating a device object using the Tabor IVI driver. This way, one can communicate with the Tabor AWG, using pre-defined functions. In this tutorial, we will give a quick start guide on how you can communicate with the Tabor AWG using the IVI driver.