FIELD NOTES
Get better at hardware test.
Guides, tutorials, and best practices to help you build better hardware tests.
- Instrument Control
Share Instruments Across Parallel Slots
Shared instruments cause interleaved commands and lost throughput. Learn how plug scope serializes calls and how to size the bottleneck.
- Instrument Control
Automate a Rigol Power Supply
Automate a Rigol power supply from Python: SCPI control, safe output sequencing, and recording load measurements in a test procedure.
- Instrument Control
Hipot and Dielectric Withstand Testing
Learn how to automate hipot and dielectric withstand safety tests, log results to TofuPilot, and maintain compliance records.
- Instrument Control
Control Multiple Instruments in a Test
Control several instruments in one test: a plug per instrument, shared sessions, and how to avoid concurrency bugs when phases run in parallel.
- Instrument Control
How to Control a Keysight DMM in Python
Control a Keysight 34461A or 34465A from Python: SCPI setup, NPLC and range selection, four-wire resistance, and recording readings as measurements.
- Instrument Control
Getting Started with PyVISA
Control test instruments from Python with PyVISA: discovery, connection, SCPI basics, error handling, and wiring a DMM into a test procedure.
- Instrument Control
SCPI Commands in Python for Test Engineers
Reference for SCPI commands in Python with PyVISA: measurement types, triggering, error handling, and wiring instruments into a TofuPilot procedure.
- Instrument Control
RF Testing and Calibration
Learn how to log RF test and calibration data for wireless products using TofuPilot, covering output power, sensitivity, and frequency accuracy.
