ssmdevices 0.27.0

a collection of lab automation drivers implemented with labbench

ssmdevices is a collection of python wrappers that have been used for complex automated experiments at NIST. They are released here for transparency, for re-use of the drivers ``as-is'' by collaborators and the broader test community, and as a demonstration of lab automation based on labbench.

The equipment includes consumer wireless communication hardware, test instruments, diagnostic software, and other miscellaneous lab electronics. In many cases the acquired data are returned in tabular form as pandas data frames.

Getting started with ssmdevices

Installation

1. Ensure prerequisites are installed:
   • python (3.9 – 3.12)
   • pip for package management
2. Recommended module installation:
   • For python distributions based on anaconda:

     pip --upgrade-strategy only-if-needed install ssmdevices
     

   • For other python installations:

     pip install ssmdevices
     

Resources

• Source code
• Documentation
• PyPI module page
• Examples
• labbench, the underlying API library

Contributors

Name	Contact Info
Dan Kuester (maintainer)	[e-mail]
Paul Blanchard	formerly with NIST
Alex Curtin	formerly with NIST
Keith Forsyth	[e-mail]
Ryan Jacobs	formerly with NIST
John Ladbury	[e-mail]
Yao Ma	[e-mail]
Duncan McGillivray	[e-mail]
Audrey Puls	formerly with NIST
Andre Rosete	formerly with NIST
Michael Voecks	formerly with NIST

Some complex measurement efforts that used ssmdevices:

• NIST TN 1952: LTE Impacts on GPS and data
• NIST TN 2069: Characterizing LTE User Equipment Emissions: Factor Screening
• NIST TN 2140: AWS-3 LTE Impacts on Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry and data
• NIST TN 2147: Characterizing LTE User Equipment Emissions Under Closed-Loop Power Control
• Blind Measurement of Receiver System Noise and data

Contributing

• Pull requests are welcome!
• Inline documentation style convention

See also

• labbench the base library for these device wrappers