PML's Pernstich develops open-source software to automate test equipment
Monday, February 6, 2012 - 10:30
in Mathematics & Economics
A free, easily customizable software program for automating test equipment via GPIB or RS232 bus may sound too good to be true, especially for smaller companies, graduate students, and hobbyists or for day-to-day laboratory work. But that's exactly what Kurt Pernstich of the PML's Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division has created.