Re: GPIB board drivers for Solaris
From: Joe Soap (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 05/19/05
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Date: 19 May 2005 15:16:48 GMT
In response to what Stuart Biggar <sbiggar@email.arizona.edu> posted in
news:FH1je.9200$Ri4.3735@okepread07:
> Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
>
>
>>>I would like to see Sun lobby NI for support of X86 Solaris for at
>>>least their PCI-GPIB boards and the GPIB-Enet (Ethernet to GPIB)
>>>boxes. I've made telephone and written requests without even an
>>>answer ...
>>
>>
>> I don't even know what GPIB is :-) but perhaps this is screaming
>> for some generic "Windows driver wrapper" for Solaris/x86.
>>
>> Casper
>
> GPIB is IEEE-488. It is an 8-bit parallel bus with good handshaking
> and reasonable performance (for the time). It is used in high-end
> electronic test equipment and such. It allowed for multiple
> instruments on a single, well shielded bus. Connectors stack for
> either star or daisy chain type connections. HP (now Agilent) used it
> for any high end instrument. We use it for connecting precision
> digital voltmeters and sources in an optics lab. These instruments
> have ONLY a GPIB interface. Some of the lower end HP (now Agilent)
> instruments have serial and GPIB interfaces but the most accurate
> (quite expensive) DVMs from Agilent have ONLY GPIB. I think the same
> is true of other test and measurement equipment manufacturers.
>
> As an aside, the Agilent web site had a doc stating that serial
> should never be used for data collection on Windows as the Windows
> serial driver was flawed for flow control. The doc (which was there
> 6 months ago) suggested using GPIB on Windows if reliable data
> transfer was required.
>
> In the old days, HP used GPIB for all sorts of things - they had
> GPIB connected disks for some old computers. In some ways it was
> similar to old 8-bit SCSI :-)
>
> Since NI supports Solaris SPARC, it would seem that Solaris x86
> support would be possible. Especially for the GPIB-Enet devices which
> use ethernet for communication with the computer.
I used to run a compny that made IEEE488(GPIB) controllers that are
controlled by an RS232 serial link.
I still have enough bits to make a few more, if anyone is interested.
I expect this address to get saturated with spam soon, at which time I
shall kill it off: qnbloao02@sneakemail.com
-- R. Priestley
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