Utilizing PyMeasure

[bicarlsen]

PyMeasure provides a Procedure and Results class that I think we can utilize well.

Each System in our program can consist of three parts:

1. Hardware components: Namely a Lamp and SMU
2. Configuraton parameters: Namely the ComputerParameters and IVSystemParameters.
3. Procedures: These would be a list of classes that inherit from pymeasure.Procedure that can be run by the system. These can also have a permission attached to them to limit admin only procedures (e.g. calibration) to specified users. Each Procedure would then produce a pymeasure.Result that contains the measurement parameters and measured data.

I think the pymeasure classes are general enough for our purposes and allows us to use all the functionality they've already implemented, but let me know what your take is. I think transitionaing the app to essentailly be a front end for a pymeasure
driven backend could make our lives much easier in the long run as we would have to maintain much less code and already have standards established.

This will also allow us to use pymeasure.instruments in the future for controlling devices.

[FTEickemeyer]

I had a brief look into pymeasure. I think this is the way to go in future, we don't have to reinvent the wheel again.

[bicarlsen]

It seems like if we use a MangedWindow it can even help create the GUI. We may want more control than this, but still worth conisdering.

[FTEickemeyer]

Yes, I also saw that they even provide a GUI. It that helps we should definitively make use of it.