GPIB communication and Rabbit

Hello,

I would appreciate any reference or help with connecting and programing a rabbit card to behave like a GPIB device.

Thanks,
Ronny

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Hi Ronny,

I added a GPIB interface to an RCM3200-based board using the National Instruments TNT4882 chip. NI has lots of documentation available. The hardware connections are relatively easy using the parallel port, but the software is a bit tricky, but nothing exotic is needed. I suggest that you carefully study the NI programming manual:

http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/370872a.pdf

Regards,

Steve

--- In r..., "sronnyle" wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I would appreciate any reference or help with connecting and programing a rabbit card to behave like a GPIB device.
>
> Thanks,
> Ronny
>

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Hi Steve,

I would very much appreciate if you could send me the software and/or hardware schematic of the connections you made.

I am pretty new in using this kind of interface and I want to cut the learning curve.

I chose Rabbit because I thought it is used for this kind of applications and I was surprised to see there are no white papers or info in the forums about GPIB.

Thank you in advance,

Ronny (ronnyle at gmail dot com).

--- In r..., "Steve" wrote:
> Hi Ronny,
>
> I added a GPIB interface to an RCM3200-based board using the National Instruments TNT4882 chip. NI has lots of documentation available. The hardware connections are relatively easy using the parallel port, but the software is a bit tricky, but nothing exotic is needed. I suggest that you carefully study the NI programming manual:
>
> http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/370872a.pdf
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
> --- In r..., "sronnyle" wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would appreciate any reference or help with connecting and programing a rabbit card to behave like a GPIB device.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ronny
>

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Ronny,

What exactly are you trying to do? Have you taken a hard look at the document that I referenced? It contains fairly detailed design guidelines for the software, and deals with the hardware, too. The first section that you need to study, unless you are already quite familiar with GPIB, is Appendix C, Introduction to the GPIB. Chapter 4 contains a semi-step-by-step design approach to the software design.

GPIB is a very common interface, but with a very narrow group of users, primarily test equipment manufacturers, which likely explains the lack of tutorials and the like.

Sending you code and schematics will be problematic for a number of reasons (proprietary rights issues, etc.).

Regards,

Steve

--- In r..., "sronnyle" wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> I would very much appreciate if you could send me the software and/or hardware schematic of the connections you made.
>
> I am pretty new in using this kind of interface and I want to cut the learning curve.
>
> I chose Rabbit because I thought it is used for this kind of applications and I was surprised to see there are no white papers or info in the forums about GPIB.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Ronny (ronnyle at gmail dot com).
>
> --- In r..., "Steve" wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Ronny,
> >
> > I added a GPIB interface to an RCM3200-based board using the National Instruments TNT4882 chip. NI has lots of documentation available. The hardware connections are relatively easy using the parallel port, but the software is a bit tricky, but nothing exotic is needed. I suggest that you carefully study the NI programming manual:
> >
> > http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/370872a.pdf
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > --- In r..., "sronnyle" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I would appreciate any reference or help with connecting and programing a rabbit card to behave like a GPIB device.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ronny
> > >
>

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