21 Jul
2005
21 Jul
'05
11:34 p.m.
In message <42DFC4AA.3080904 at MyRealBox.com> you wrote:
I started a project on Sourceforge (softcs80) to do
that. I found the
specs on bitsavers (Thanks Al) and they don't look to terribly bad... If
only a PCI GPIB card would be a bit cheaper...
The Keithley Instruments and CEC boards can be had for not very much money
second-hand. I've got a CEC PCI-488 (aka PCI<=>488) that I picked up for $40,
including a GPIB cable. It has an NI-488 translation layer too, so most of
the ready-written code works on it.
Mine is basically a NEC GPIB chip, with a PLX PCI->ISA translator and some
NatSemi linedrivers. Works quite well, actually. Sure it doesn't have the
"turbo modes" the NI boards have, but I've never needed them anyway - none
of
my GPIB peripherals speak high-speed GPIB.
I'd be only too happy to do some testing and/or development on SoftCS80, but
I don't think I've got anything that'll talk to a CS80 (unless HP sneaked
CS80 support into the System software for the 1651B logic analyser).
Later.
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