Asynchronous Measurements

Instrumation provides built-in support for asyncio, allowing you to take measurements from multiple instruments simultaneously without blocking.

Basic Usage

Every measurement method has an async_ counterpart.

import asyncio
from instrumation.factory import get_instrument

async def main():
    dmm = get_instrument("ADDR1", "DMM")
    sa = get_instrument("ADDR2", "SA")

    # Measure in parallel
    results = await asyncio.gather(
        dmm.async_measure_voltage(),
        sa.async_get_peak_value()
    )

    print(f"Voltage: {results[0].value}")
    print(f"Power: {results[1].value}")

asyncio.run(main())

How it works

For real hardware drivers that use blocking VISA calls, Instrumation automatically offloads the work to a thread pool using asyncio.to_thread.