Editor’s Note: David Wyban from Keithley Instruments explains how consumers’ demand for higher functionality makes embedded software necessary for next-generation test and measurement instrumentation.

Programmable instruments, which allow creating and storing on-board programs for on-demand execution, have been available in some form for many years. Hardware and programming language improvements ...

Scripting is a powerful and convenient way to provide programmability for instruments in test and measurement applications. Script-based instruments provide architectural flexibility, improved ...

If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...