Walk into any test bay today, and there's a good chance you'll encounter racks of individual instruments, all communicating via GPIB (general-purpose interface-bus) ports under the control of a ...

Modern instrumentation gets a lot of power from driver software that gives users easy access to test functions. A midnight mission over Fallujah is a bad time to discover problems with an aircraft's ...

Test-system developers historically have used instrument drivers—software modules containing a collection of high-level functions that abstracts the low-level instrument communications details—to ...

The VISA (Virtual Instrument Software Architecture)programmming interface has, over the years, streamlined instrument programming.It's provided a means for instrument drivers to pass commands and ...