When interfacing to a commercial laser, I found one of the most concise (and perhaps one of the most odd) communication protocols I've ever run across.
Read MoreI had to talk to a fairly simple instrument called a Joule Meter, which measures the energy in each shot of a pulsed laser. The joule meter communicated over a standard RS232 serial port, but their protocol had a feature I have never seen before.
Read MoreI was interfacing to a vacuum pressure gauge from a major manufacturer recently and came across a surprising protocol.
Read MoreOne project I was working on selected a high-end high speed digitizer from a large, well respected high tech company. The API for the digitizer was already wrapped up in LabVIEW VIs
Read MoreThe reason I started this blog was because I recently came across several very interesting examples of communication protocols in commercial instruments I had to deal with. But this first post reaches way back several decades, to when I was fairly new to LabVIEW.
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