Generic Measurement Software

[Tom]

Hello,

I was wondering whether there was a project for a generic Measurement
Software. Usually measuring something means taking data of something while
changing another parameter.

I bet this has been already implemented 100001 times, it's basically what
every PhD students in physics does in his first year.

Wouldn't it be good to have some software that is flexible enough to
provide a basis for doing this task and could be used by everyone?

We do have something here, but like with many things in research, you stop
developping at the point where it starts to work? because your boss would
like to see immediate results and thus you always stay with an
alpha-version. The next PhD student does not like it (you did not like it
either) and start
s a new concept -- and ends where you have been before...

Comments?

Think about it,

Tom

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Tom Borton
Switzerland

[PdB]

Perhaps you could be more specific on what you want.
In all the projects they did, forum-members surely will have pieces of your puzzle.
Do however take a notice however at the NI-license that, as I read I, doesn't encourage you to develop generic T&M software.
(I answered the question two days ago but for some reason it was not published)

[Tom]

Hm, more specific is difficult. What we have here looks somehow like the
following:

- Plugins for
* sweepers
* readers
- frame that coordinates the two
- routine that displays the data while it`s take

The sweepers are VIs with a generic interface that step one parameter,
e.g. the magnetic field or a voltage. Anything that can be adjusted to some
point can be a potential sweeper (temperature, ....)

The readers read values from device, again voltage from a multimeter,
lock-in amplifier, thermometers,...

The "main" program puts these two entities together, asks for a setup
(=sweep from magnetic field from 0 to 8T, measure voltage 1 and voltage 2
every 0.01T) and displays the data.

Once the sweep is finished, the data can be stored in a file.


I have not loo
ked at the at any NI license, what you mention is seriously
interesting...

Any more comments?

Cheers, Tom

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:08:46 -0800 (PST), PdB_Serenity_nl wrote:
>Perhaps you could be more specific on what you want.
>In all the projects they did, forum-members surely will have pieces of
>your puzzle.
>Do however take a notice however at the NI-license that, as I read I,
>doesn't encourage you to develop generic T&M software.
>(I answered the question two days ago but for some reason it was not
>published)


--
Tom Borton
Switzerland