Programmable electronic test equipment and method for programming electronic test equipment

A piece of electronic test equipment, comprising:

• signal processing hardware;
• a signal processor coupled to the signal processing hardware and configured to control the operation of the signal processing hardware;
• a central processor coupled to the signal processor;
• a graphical user interface;
• a graphics processor coupled to the central processor and the graphical user interface, the graphics processor configured to control operations of the graphical user interface;
• a script language interpreter including a compiler and a virtual machine, the script language interpreter coupled to the graphical user interface and the graphics processor, the compiler configured to convert script source code to byte code fed to the virtual machine which is configured to interpret the byte code into machine code at run-time for controlling at least one of the signal processor and the graphics processor,
• the graphical user interface being configured to receive editable input parameters from a user to the script source code being converted by the compiler of the script language interpreter.