NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS ISA AT-GPIB/TNT IEEE-488.2 CARD

[James F. Mayer]

What do I need to use this card to control an HP 8568 Spectrum
analyzer, other than HPIB cables from my computer and what OS (WIN 3.1, 95,
98) should be used? Drivers? Library? Where do I go for them?

 

[Aidan Grey]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:41:35 GMT, James F. Mayer wrote:

What do I need to use this card to control an HP 8568 Spectrum
analyzer, other than HPIB cables from my computer and what OS (WIN 3.1, 95,
98) should be used? Drivers? Library? Where do I go for them?

Go to www.ni.com for drivers for your card. There are
some programming examples on their site as well.

You will probably need the programming manual for the
HP 8568 to do anything with it. Go to www.agilent.com for
information on the HP 8568.


Aidan Grey

 

[Paul D.Smith]

You will probably need the programming manual for the
HP 8568 to do anything with it. Go to www.agilent.com for
information on the HP 8568.

Does "LabView" support this device? Also, you might want to consider a
newer card/device so you're not locked into an obsolete PC. For example,
there are Ethernet/GPIB controllers available which would allow you to then
control it from any networked PC (but again probably using something like
"LabView").

Paul DS.

 

[KC]

I have a NI GPIB controller in a PC and it works OK with LV7.1

I will check this week if you can do something with MAX from NI.

KC

 

[KC]

Yes, you can use MAX to talk to your board and scan for devices and
much more...

KC

 

[John Miles]

In article <zdVDf.9772$vU2.4634@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
jfma@ix.netcom.com says...

What do I need to use this card to control an HP 8568 Spectrum
analyzer, other than HPIB cables from my computer and what OS (WIN 3.1, 95,
98) should be used? Drivers? Library? Where do I go for them?

Well, you certainly don't want to use Win 3.1 with it -- you'll never
find any applications. According to the table at
http://www.ni.com/support/gpib/versions.htm , you need the NI 1.7 driver
for that card.

The 8568 is supported by the GPIB Toolkit software at the link below, so
once you've got the drivers installed, you might give it a try.

-- jm

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