In the May 1994 issue of Test & Measurement World, I stuck my neck out and wrote Look over your shoulder, GPIB where I predicted that the venerable instrument bus would be overtaken by Ethernet and ...

A few months ago, I was discussing the control of GPIB equipment with a colleague. Based on only on my gut feeling and the briefest of research, I told him that the pricey and proprietary GPIB ...

The venerable IEEE 488 bus, commonly called GPIB, has long held the top spot as a communications bus for connecting computers to instruments. Other buses have appeared, most notably Ethernet and USB, ...

HP’s GPIB standard receives Linux support 53 years after its original release Legacy lab instruments can now integrate seamlessly with modern Linux distros The interface maintains the original 8MB/s ...

DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete DESIGN SOLUTION contributed article, which begins on Page 2. Choosing the right platform (or combination of platforms) for your ATE system can save you money ...

Everyone contemplating a test and measurement task is confronted with a choice: Which language is best for my application? Today’s market offers many choices of text-based languages and some graphical ...

Recently, [Greg Kroah-Hartman] proclaimed the joyous news on the Linux Kernel Mailing List that stable General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) support has finally been merged into the 6.19 Linux kernel.

Engineers and scientists now can use the latest USB standard, USB 2.0 high-speed, to control GPIB instruments at transfer rates of up to 8 MBytes/sec. The new National Instruments GPIB-USB-HS, claimed ...

National Instruments has introduced its first Mac-compatible USB-GPIB controller as well as a low-profile PCI Express GPIB controller. With the NI USB-GPIB-HS, Mac users can now control their ...