27 Jul
2010
27 Jul
'10
4:42 p.m.
On 07/27/2010 04:05 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Possible, but HP users tended to have the 'HPIB' name ingrained
into
them...
Everyone else does not and companies like Tektronix, Keithley
and a raft of others make gear for IEEE/GPIB bus.
I wrote a metric bucket load of code for ATE using GPIB (IEEE) controller
in a PC using QBasic45/dos and a IO library supplied with the card.
Very common in industry, though old. People have moved on to
RS485, Ethernet and smart devices using MPUs with tose interfaces.
Allison
For the reason already stated (HP would call it
'HPIB', not 'GPIB' or
'IEEE')_, I doubt it's an HP machine. Although to be honest, HP tended
to
just use a SEND command unless it as an HP9830 when it was CMD.
HP may well not have used the IEEE ref, but I would think the code was
more likely written by the end customer or the assembler of the ATE
system, not HP.
For
alternatives, what other companies made HPIB/GPIB/IEEE controllers?
At that time, I would guess Tektronix did. Possibly Fluke? Actually just
about anyotne in the ATE buisness would have done, surely?
-tony