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Getting Started

The following is a complete step-by-step guide to setting up an experiment. In this walkthrough, we shall:

  1. Initialize a basic experiment
  2. Add software (Clock) and hardware (SR_830 lock-in) instruments
  3. Add measurements (time and voltages) that are saved to a file
  4. Write a custom instrument class (software random number generator)
  5. Write a Task to automate our experimental procedure

in only a few dozen lines of code. A feature-full GUI allowing you to control the instruments, run your Task and visualize the live data will be automatically generated.

It is hoped that the pyacquisition API is sufficiently simple that this walkthrough and example code adequately illustrates how to proceed with your own experiment. More verbose descriptions of each step in the code can be found in annotations . Where certain internal design choices impose specific and non-obvious requirements, a note can be found under the code.