The NIST scan framework is a framework that greatly simplifies the process of writing and maintaining scans of experimental parameters using the ARTIQ control system and language. The framework adopts the philosophy of convention over configuration where datasets are stored for analysis and plotting in a standard directory structure.

The framework provides a number of useful features such as automatic calculation of statistics, fitting, validation of fits, and plotting that do not need to be performed by the user. This reduces the size and complexity of scan experiments to make them fast to implement, easy to read, and easy to maintain.