[time-nuts] General Purpose Instrument Troubles

Brooke Clarke brooke at pacific.net
Fri Nov 26 21:27:41 UTC 2004


Hi Duan:

I have not moved my NI card from the old WIN98SE machine to this XP 
machine so don't know the answer to your question.
NI has the drivers for the cards on their web page as free downloads.  
You might check there.

Brooke

Daun Yeagley wrote:

>I see that Brooke has said a lot of what I said, plus a few more tidbits, all of
>which are quite valid.
>I do have one question about the bus analyzer in the NI cards.  Many of them
>have the analyzer function built in, however they sometimes are limited to
>specific OS's.  For example, I have the NI GPIB+ PCMCIA card.  The "+" indicates
>that it has the analyzer function built in.  The only problem is the analyzer
>program they supply is only supported through WIN 98.  I cannot use it with
>either NT nor Win 2K. (I presume XP is similar).  Perhaps I should check NI's
>web site, as they may have now added support for it (that would be a *very* good
>thing!).  I had been told by NI that there was a problem with NT and 2K in
>directly accessing the hardware, al la printers.  Brooke, if they do have a new
>version, let me know, as I would find it most useful!
>
>Daun Yeagley
>(former HP/Agilent Microwave SE, now "retired")
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
>Behalf Of Brooke Clarke
>Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 2:56 PM
>To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] General Purpose Instrument Troubles
>
>
>Hi Poul:
>
>The newer NI 488 cards have buss analysis built in.  It is very helpful
>to get a bus timing log with every change in the bus status time
>stamped.  I haven't used a hardware 488 buss analyzer, but I expect that
>the NI analyzer is more powerful.
>
>Have Fun,
>
>Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
>
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>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>>In message <000101c4d3ee$01050580$0500a8c0 at darius.domain.actdsltmp>, "Bill Hawk
>>ins" writes:
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>>>I suspect that my problem is compounded incompatibilities.
>>>Is 488.2 compatible with the earlier 488?
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>488.2 is an upgrade, but it is backwards compatible.
>>
>>The two main causes of trouble are the CR/NL line termination
>>differences and that some instruments actually want the EOT
>>bit set.
>>
>>Consider buying a IEEE488 analyzer, I found my HP59401a very useful.
>>
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