Writing Drivers

This folder contains examples that are useful when you want to write your own driver for a new instrument.

• A ParameterWithSetpoints Example with Dual Setpoints
  • Measurement 1: Time Trace
  • Measurement 2: Periodogram
  • Measurement 3: 2D Sweeping
• Creating QCoDeS instrument drivers
  • Base Classes
  • Parameters and Channels
    • What’s a Parameter?
    • Adding a Parameter to an instrument.
    • Functions
    • What’s an InstrumentModule, then?
  • Naming Instruments
    • Naming the Instrument class
    • Naming InstrumentModule classes
    • Driver supporting multiple models.
  • Logging
  • VisaInstrument: Simple example
  • VisaInstrument: a more involved example
  • VisaInstruments: Simulating the instrument
  • DLL-based instruments
  • Manual instruments
  • Custom Parameter classes
    • On/Off parameters
  • Dynamically adding and removing parameters
  • Handling interruption of measurements
  • Organization
  • Documentation
• Creating Simulated PyVISA Instruments
  • What?
  • Not!
  • How?
  • Example: Weinschel8320
    • The .yaml file
    • The test
  • Congratulations! That was it.
  • Bonus example: including parameters in the simulated instrument
  • That’s it!
• Instrument
  • Instrument responsibilities:
  • Instruments can fail:
  • Example notebooks about Instruments:
• Abstract Instruments and parameters
  • We cannot instantiate a Instrument with abstract parameters.
  • Units of parameters defined in sub classes must match units defined in the base class
• Working subclass