A few months ago, I was discussing the control of GPIB equipment with a colleague. Based on only on my gut feeling and the briefest of research, I told him that the pricey and proprietary GPIB cont… ...

PLEASANTON, CA, November 19, 2008. Today ICS Electronics announced a new GPIB-to-Serial Interface Board for interfacing devices with an RS-422 or RS-485 interfaces to the GPIB bus. Designated the ...

If you look on the back of old, old test equipment, you’ll find a weird-looking connector that’s either labeled IEEE-488, GPIB, or HP-IB. It’s a very old interface designed by HP … ...

HIGHLIGHTS: GPIB: The General Purpose Bus Interface is a byte-serial, bit-parallel bus that can connect up to 15 devices to one controller. GPIB has a huge installed base, making instrument ...

Standards for interconnecting instruments date back to the mid-1960s when Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent Technologies) developed the HP-IB, or Hewlett-Packard interface bus, also known as GPIB ...