Module qscope.docs.supportedhardware

Supported Hardware

This page documents what devices/hardware are currently supported by qscope.

The table below shows hardware compatibility across operating systems:

Device   Windows     Linux   Connection   Notes
Andor camera   ✅     ❓   USB/PCIe Install Solis (win only) or SDK
Basler camera   ✅     ❓   USB/GigE Install pylon
Thorlabs camera   ✅     ❓   USB Install Thorcam
Photometrics camera   ✅     ❓   USB/PCIe Install PVCAM
Atto magnet   ✅     ❓   Serial Serial communication
Winfreak   ✅     ❓   Serial Serial communication
R&S smb100   ✅     ❓   VISA VISA communication
Agilent SigGen   ✅     ❓   VISA VISA communication
DAQ   ❓     ❓   USB/PCIe See pylablib
Picoscope   ✅     ✅   USB Picoscope SDK. Win/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE/Mac
Pulseblaster   ✅     ✅   PCIe spinapi DLL from spincore
Keithley SMU   ✅     ✅   VISA VISA communication
Helmholtz coils   ❓     ❓   Serial Serial communication
Temp controller   ❓     ❓   VISA/USB See pylablib
AWG   ✅     ✅   PCIe/USB Generic, see pylablib, need NI runtime
Spectrometer   ❓     ❓   USB Swap to pyseabreeze

Legend:

  • ✅ = Supported
  • ❓ = Needs testing, or partially tested
  • ❌ = requires external libs