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OS used in a electronics development setting
bsccara:
I'm currently developing a tool for electronics development work to be controlled by a computer. In order to better allocate development resources I'd like to ask you what, in your experience, are the OS most used in computers connected to electronics development equipment, such as scopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, etc., in a professional or hobby setting.
Thank you for participating.
cortex_m0:
For test equipment, it has to be Windows, because few of the existing tools from Keysight/R&S/etc work in other operating systems.
But 95% of the time, I only use the front panel on the instruments.
T3sl4co1l:
Just offhand I would guess mac is least used, their user base being more creative/artistic than technical.
For the most part, it follows consumer computing trends. It's been a long time since they days of specialized computers, workstations and mainframes; your average PC has orders of magnitude more power than all of those combined, certainly more than adequate to do anything you'd want to do with the connected instruments.
I don't know personally what drivers and tools are available for *nix, but I'm guessing for example NI supports it with their tools (most relevant probably being LabView or a GPIB adapter)?
So, corporate IT for instance, is probably already doing this, just request another PC to run equipment.
Tim
NiHaoMike:
Just make a Python library to go with it. Pretty easy to make it work on every commonly used desktop OS and even some embedded ones.
SmallCog:
Bench computers that we use attached to gear, to google stuff, etc are all windows.
I have no idea what your product is but if I was developing a bit of kit I'd have it with ethernet/wifi and let users connect to it via a web browser.
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