[time-nuts] Low Cost GP-IB PCI card?

John Ackermann N8UR jra at febo.com
Sun Jul 9 11:00:36 EDT 2006


That's good news, Ulrich.  SRQ programming is really annoying, but
sometimes you need to do it...

John
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Ulrich Bangert said the following on 07/09/2006 09:58 AM:
> Hi John,
> 
> the SPARK FUN part can definitely detect the status of the SRQ line and
> perform a serial poll to read the status bytes of attached devices. That
> were two of the major reasons why i preferred them against other cheaper
> circuits.
> 
> Regards
> Ulrich Bangert  
> 
> 
>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>Von: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
>>[mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] Im Auftrag von John Ackermann N8UR
>>Gesendet: Sonntag, 9. Juli 2006 13:56
>>An: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>>Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] Low Cost GP-IB PCI card?
>>
>>
>>SAIDJACK at aol.com said the following on 07/08/2006 11:58 PM:
>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>>I found that USB-GPIB controller. Looks like BSD and Linux are  
>>>>supported.
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=549
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi, I  bought one on Ebay, they work quite well. They used 
>>
>>to be $99 
>>
>>>at
>>>Sparkfun, now  they raised the price, and it is out of  stock...
>>
>>Have you tried using SRQ or other features than simple 
>>read/wait/write sequences with it?  I found with one of the 
>>old RS-232-to-GPIB converters that anything beyond reads and 
>>writes was hard to handle.
>>
>>John
>>
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