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This project contains various python code useful in experimental labs, such as drivers, plotting tools and data-logging.

The project is documented with Sphinx on the read the docs webpage, but the documentation is still in its early stages.

The project is in a very early state of development and much functionality and configurations options are still not implemented, however, much of the code are already now rather useful. Code documentation is unfortunately not very complete at this point.

The project includes project drivers for a number of instruments. Currently all of the drivers must be configured by manually changing hard-coded values in the code. The list of instruments with usable (but non-complete drivers), are:

• Agilent 34410A: This driver is currently able to do basic operations such as changing measurement type and read values from the instrument. Currently only the USB interface is supported (through the USBTMC kernel-driver). The driver will most likely also work with the Agilent 34411A and with minor modifications possibly also the 34401A (in that case through the serial interface).

• CPX400DP: This driver is fairly complete with support for setting and reading back values from the instrument. Currently only the USB interface is tested, but since the USB interface exposes a virtual serial port, most likely the serial interface will work with no problems.

• Varian XGS600: This driver is not complete but fully functional for reading pressures from the gauge controller through the serial port of the device.

• nidaq: Not a driver as such (actually all driver functionality comes through NI DAQmx and the nidaqmx-python wrapper for this driver), but serves as an example implementation of how to read out values from instruments that exposes an analog output.

The project includes example code showing how to make a continuously running data-logger. The program will set up a number of threaded classes that will collect data in the background and log it to a MySQL database if the values changes more than a given amount or with regular time intervals.

The projects includes two different example of gui-development usefull in an experimental lab. One example show how to make running plot of a measured value. The other example show a functional gui for the Agilent 34410A driver.