Microwave synthesizers by QuickSynth#

In these category, qtics supports the FSW and FSL series by Microwave Synthesizer by National Instruments The manual of this instrument and similar products can be found here. The SCPI commands and functions can be found in the communications specifications.

Base class: qtics.instruments.serial_inst.SerialInst.

Example of operation#

from qtics import FSL0010 # also FSL0020, FSW0010, FSW0020

synth = FSL0010(name = "mySynth", address = "/dev/ttyUSB0")
synth.connect()
synth.freq = 5.3e9
synth.output_on = True

Commands#

Other than featuring all the methods of qtics.instruments.serial_inst.SerialInst, this class contains the following properties.

Properties#

  • freq

  • output_on

  • ext_ref_source

  • temperature