Mac M1 processor compatibility with python pyvisa

You need to ensure that a 64-bit version of PyVISA (requires Python 3.6+) is accessing a 64-bit National Instruments NI-VISA library, and both are current updates. The NI-VISA library version 21.0 was released in July 2021, so may be incompatible with Monterey. Talk to the vendors. You may be done until National Instruments updates their library for Monterey compatibility.

You could look into using the SwiftVISA wrapper and the SwiftVISASwift implementation.

https://github.com/SwiftVISA

The above Project has a lot of repositories. The main ones to look at are SwiftVISA, which is a framework that wraps the NI-VISA framework similar to what pyVISA does. Or you can use the SwiftVISASwift package, which reimplements VISA. I like prefer using the SwiftVISASwift package because it is easier to use on in an XCode project compared to the SwiftVISA framework.

Things to note:

• you will need to change your build architecture to just x86_64 if you use the SwiftVISA framework since NI-VISA is only compiled for x86.
• SwiftVISASwift is limited to just TCP/IP devices at this time. macOS Monterey really cracked down on USB kexts and there isn't a good, open-source package for USB communication to implement a USB Message Instrument.