=============== Welcome to QMI! =============== You are reading the documentation of QMI, the Quantum Measurement Infrastructure framework. What is it? ----------- QMI is a Python 3 framework for controlling laboratory equipment. It is suitable for anything ranging from one-off scientific experiments to robust operational setups. QMI is developed by `QuTech `_ to support advanced physics experiments involving quantum bits. However, other than its name and original purpose, there is nothing specifically *quantum* about QMI — it is potentially useful in any environment where monitoring and control of measurement equipment is needed. Features -------- QMI has a number of nice features: * It is fully open source; * It is written in modern Python 3; * It is properly documented; * It is optimized for monitoring and control of complicated setups, distributed over multiple locations; * It supports *instruments* that encapsulate equipment under computer control. A number of instruments are provided out of the box, and it is relatively easy to add your own; * It supports *tasks* that encapsulate a (background) process that needs to run indefinitely; * It offers *network transparency*; instruments and tasks can be remotely started, stopped, monitored and controlled; * It is multi-platform. At QuTech, QMI is regularly used in both Linux and Windows, and running QMI on macOS is also possible.