sicl

= SICL/Ruby

((<download|URL:http://rubyforge.org/projects/sicl/>))

== 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

or

Example:

require 'sicl'

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

io.output('*RST')

puts io.spoll

puts io.query('*IDN?')

... instruments specific operations ...

io.close

or

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|URL:sicl.en.html>))/((<Japanese|URL:sicl.ja.html>))

== REQUIREMENTS:

((<Aiglent IO Libraries Suite 14.2 or later|URL:http://www.agilent.com/>))

== INSTALL:

If you can use the ((<RubyGems|URL:http://docs.rubygems.org/>)), 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)

Copyright (c) 2011, Naoki Kobayashi