cl-vxi11

Native VXI11 in Common Lisp for talking to instruments

Dependencies

Direct

FRPC2, DRX, TRIVIAL-GARBAGE, BABEL

Indirect

FSOCKET, DRAGONS, DRX, POUNDS, NIBBLES

Installing dependencies

For now you want to go to your quicklisp local projects directory

cd ~/quicklisp/local-projects
git clone https://github.com/fjames86/frpc2.git
git clone https://github.com/fjames86/fsocket.git
git clone https://github.com/fjames86/dragons.git
git clone https://github.com/fjames86/drx.git

TODO / features to add

• Detecting / reconnecting after a dropped / lost connection
• Implement DEVICE_INTR for SRQ (I have not run into a use case for this)
• Add broadcast for instrument discovery

Usage

(quicklisp:quickload "vxi11")

(defparameter *my-instr*
  (vxi11:vxi11-connect :host "your-instrument-hostname" :device "inst0"))

(vxi11:vxi11-query/string *my-instr* "*IDN?")

(vxi11:vxi11-disconnect *my-instr*) ;; or let it get garbage collected