[science-iwg] Lab automation tooling

[Christian Pontesegger <christian.pontesegger@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

while you know that I am doing scripting a lot, most scripts in our 
company need to communicate with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, power 
source units, waveform generators, ...). We are doing this using VISA, 
IVI and typically National Instruments drivers. We are accessing all 
this stuff from EASE scripts, using a self written intermediate layer in 
C# to access hardware busses like GPIB. I am wondering how the other 
science group members do this as I guess some of you will have similar 
requirements. Are you all building your own stuff or is there a common 
approach available already?

cheers
Christian