SCTE intends to provide a simple, yet powerful, framework for building data acquisition and equipment control systems for experimental Physics, and correlated areas. Via its SCTE::Instrument module, RS-232, USB, and LAN buses are supported, and the intricacies of hardware communication are encapsulated underneath an object oriented abstraction layer. Written in Perl, and using the SCPI protocol, enabled instruments can be easily programmed to perform a wide variety of tasks. While this work presents general aspects of the development of data acquisition systems using the SCTE framework, it is illustrated by particular applications designed for the calibration of several in-house developed devices for power measurement in the tokamak TCABR Alfv\'en Waves Excitement System.
@article{arxiv.0906.4833,
title = {SCTE: An open-source Perl framework for testing equipment control and data acquisition},
author = {Luiz C. B. Mostaço-Guidolin and Rafael B. Frigori and Leonid Ruchko and Ricardo M. O. Galvao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4833},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
15 pages, 6 figures. Related software application, SCTE, registered under GPL v3 license, available at http://code.google.com/p/scte