SICL/Ruby

DESCRIPTION:

SICL/Ruby is SICL(Standard Instrument Control Library) API module for Ruby. SICL is part of the Agilent IO Libraries Suite product. SICL/Ruby gives you a capability to control your instruments via GPIB, USB, and LAN.

SYNOPSIS:

Please, use like this.

Example:

require 'sicl'

SICL.open('gpib0,17') do |io|

  io.output('*IDN?')

  puts io.enter

  # ... instruments specific operations ...

end

Example:

require 'sicl'

io = SICL.open('gpib0,17')

io.output('*RST')

puts io.spoll

puts io.query('*IDN?')

# ... instruments specific operations ...

io.close

Example:

require 'sicl'

class MyInst < SICL::Instrument
  def reset; output('*RST'); end
end

io = MyInst.new 'gpib0,17'

io.reset

# ... instruments specific operations ...

io.close

DOCUMENTS:

SICL/Ruby Reference : English/Japanese

REQUIREMENTS:

Aiglent IO Libraries Suite 14.2 or later

INSTALL:

If you can use the RubyGems, Please install to use the gem command.

$ export http_proxy='http://web-proxy:8088' # if you need
$ gem install sicl

Or not, Please build from the soruce code.

$ svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/sicl
$ cd sicl/ext
$ ruby extconf.rb
$ make
$ make install

LICENSE:

(GPL ver.2)