Based on only on my gut feeling and the briefest of research, I told him that the pricey and proprietary GPIB controller solutions could easily be replaced by open-source tools and Linux.

The host PC must include a suitable GPIB controller—an internal interface card or an external device. Newer PC designs are phasing out traditional internal buses, such as PCI, ISA, and EISA, in favor ...

This week, National Instruments unveiled a USB-to-GPIB controller that takes advantage of the high-speed USB 2.0 specification to offer transfer rates up to 1.8 Mbytes/s in standard IEEE 488.1 mode ...

Historically, test gear used IEEE-488 (also known as GPIB or, from the originator, HPIB). But today, your device will likely talk over a USB port, a serial port, or a LAN connection. You’d think ...

announced the NI GPIB-ENET/1000 Gigabit Ethernet-to-GPIB controller along with new instrument control software including enhanced features in NI LabVIEW 2010, NI VISA 5.0 and new instrument drivers.

GPIB The General Purpose Bus Interface is a byte-serial, bit-parallel bus that can connect up to 15 devices to one controller. GPIB has a huge installed base, making instrument connection a snap.

The new National Instruments GPIB-USB-HS, claimed to be the industry’s fastest USB-to-GPIB controller, is the latest in the broad offering of NI instrument control products for PCI Express, Ethernet, ...

The PCI-1671UP is designed as a cost-effective, universal PCI, GPIB controller in MD1 low-profile form factor, which allows for data transfer rates of up to 1.5MB/s. Features include: full IEEE 488.2 ...

For GPIB, this means only one instrument. Figure 1 is a diagram of the test setup. For all tests, the host and device software were the same and the instrument initialized to the same state before ...