What You Need To Get Started; Software Description; Hardware Description - National Instruments PCI-GPIB Getting Started

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Introduction

What You Need to Get Started

PCI -GPIB board

3.5 in. NI-488.2M Distribution Disk for PCI-GPIB and Digital UNIX

NI-488.2M Distribution Tape for PCI-GPIB and Digital UNIX

Digital UNIX 3.x or higher installed on your computer

Super-user privilege

The NI-488.2M software for Digital UNIX includes a multitasking driver

and utilities that transform a DEC Alpha Station running Digital UNIX into

a GPIB Controller with complete communications and bus management

capabilities. The NI-488.2M software also includes a C language interface,

a program to test the installation of the software, an interactive control

program, and an interactive configuration program.

The NI-488.2M driver supports up to four PCI-GPIB boards and is

completely compatible with both IEEE 488 and IEEE 488.2 instruments.

The PCI-GPIB is an IEEE 488 interface for computers with PCI expansion

slots. The TNT4882C ASIC performs the basic IEEE 488 Talker, Listener,

and Controller functions, including those required by the most recent GPIB

standard, IEEE 488.2. The PCI-GPIB can sustain data transfer rates of up

to 1.2 Mbytes/s, and can also implement a high-speed GPIB protocol

(HS488), so that you can have data transfers of up to 1.5 Mbytes/s,

depending on the speed of your system.

You can use standard GPIB cables to connect the PCI-GPIB with up to 14

instruments. If you need to use more than the maximum number of

instruments, you can use the National Instruments GPIB extenders or the

PCI-GPIB for Digital UNIX

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