Making QCoDeS drivers findable by instrument model (sample for corrections)

[sebastien michea (smichea)]

Hi, I'm Sebastien, the creator of OpenDeviceDB, an open-source catalogue that links device models to the open drivers, firmware and tools that already support them. PyMeasure maintainers pointed me to the Python lab automation landscape, and QCoDeS stood out for its clean one-class-per-model driver layout.

I've prepared an importer that would let someone looking up, say, a Keithley 2450 or a Rohde & Schwarz ZNB20 find the QCoDeS driver class and its documentation. It is a draft PR, not merged, and I'd like your corrections first.

How it works:

• a reviewed table of 116 concrete driver classes from v0.62.0, each checked against the release; product names are written by hand rather than derived from class names;
• each record links the driver file at the release tag and your vendor page in the driver docs, says "driver available in QCoDeS", and never claims we tested the instrument;
• left out: base classes, aliases, series drivers (DPO5000/MSO5000, RTO1000, DG4000, DS4000, Infiniium, N51x1), the AMI 430 3D composite and lab-built instruments. QCoDeS-contrib is not included yet.

A few sample records:

Record	Driver class
Keithley 2450	Keithley2450
Keithley DMM6500	Keithley6500
Keysight 34465A	Keysight34465A
Rohde & Schwarz ZNB20	RohdeSchwarzZNB20
Stanford Research Systems SR860	SR860
Rigol DP832 and DP832A (two records)	RigolDP832
Lake Shore Model 372	LakeshoreModel372
Quantum Design PPMS DynaCool	DynaCool

Questions:

1. Agilent and Keysight duplicates. Agilent34410A and Keysight34410A both exist. Should we treat them as one instrument (the Keysight-branded 34410A) or keep both names?
2. Series drivers. For the Tektronix DPO/MSO and R&S RTO1000 drivers, is there an authoritative list of the models each one is meant for? Without one, we leave them out rather than guess.
3. The DP8xx "(A)" models. The docstrings say "DP832(A)". Is it right to list both DP832 and DP832A as supported?

Thanks for QCoDeS. Written with AI assistance.