Contemporary research laboratories include a variety of instruments that connect using any of several interface methods to a PC for automating procedures and collecting data. Although different ...

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 ...

If you’re not so daft as to think Arduino-based oscilloscopes and multimeters are actually useful for all but the simplest tests and measurements, you just might have some big iron sitting around your ...

An open source USB to GPIB adapter will soon reach version 3, bringing an integrated Ethernet port with PoE support to the design. Project originator Kai Gossner (Xyphro) recently contacted CNX ...

With the 1105 USB-to-GPIB hub controller, any desktop or portable PC with a USB interface is converted into a full-function, IEEE-488.2-compatible bus controller. USB instruments complying with the ...

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 ...

In the world of (expensive) lab test equipment the GPIB (general purpose interface bus) connection is hard to avoid if you want any kind of automation, but nobody likes wrangling with the bulky cables ...

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 ...

Manufacturers of test-and-measurement equipment have long recognized the need to allow for automated testing. So, they usually build equipment with some type of I/O interface. The General-Purpose ...