In this second of an occasional series on editorials from Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News, I look at the instrumentation programming language known as Standard Commands for Programmable ...

Ultimately these would coalesce into IEEE-488.1 (GPIB) as the physical layer and by 1990 the first Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI) standard was released that built on top of ...

Here’s the summary: automated test applications are dominated by a series of hundreds or thousands of single commands and single measurements. I wrote the following two paragraphs to explain the SCPI ...

The SCPI (Standards Command for Programmable Instruments) protocol is exceptionally popular in lab and workspace tools, letting you configure and fetch data from oscilloscopes and lab scales alike ...

Parsing text such as used in SCPI commands for a PIC microcontroller consumes considerable processor time and resources. By converting the text into two-letter pairs using a simple encoding table ...

SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) specifies a programming language that is designed for controlling test instruments. It provides a common syntax, command structure ...