[time-nuts] Prologix GPIB/USB converter help...

[John Miles]

The "public beta" of the Windows configuration app for Prologix boards is
here:
http://www.ke5fx.com/gpib/setup.exe

This is actually a complete GPIB Toolkit release, but you can run the
PROLOGIX.EXE app independently of anything else.  It's a standalone program
with no dependencies on the rest of the package.  (Parenthetically, if
anyone on the list has access to an Agilent PSA-class spectrum analyzer with
a Prologix or NI GPIB interface and is interested helping test the new SCPI
support in this release, please drop me a note offline.)

PROLOGIX.EXE should be a very handy tool for Prologix users running Windows,
at least once it's fully debugged.  I'd appreciate any comments/bug reports
on it.

-- john, KE5FX


> The new Win32 configuration program is actually looking pretty
> sharp; if anyone with a version 3.xx or 4.xx board wants to help
> beta-test it, drop me a line offlist at jmiles at pop.net and I'll
> send a copy.
>
> -- john, KE5FX
>
> >
> > John Miles said the following on 04/15/2007 04:37 PM:
> >
> > > You can try sending the command ++rst to force the Atmel chip
> > to cold-boot
> > > itself.  That takes about 5 seconds.
> >
> > Hmmm... that command isn't documented in the on-line manual.  I'm
> > getting the feeling that one of the problems with this device is that
> > the docs are quite incomplete.
> >
> > For example, according to email I got today from the developer, the
> > latest version no longer cares at all about the serial params.  Which
> > makes sense because the docs that are on the web site don't mention the
> > port settings at all.  But if you read any of the google hits, you'll
> > find a bunch of messages (mainly on time-nuts!) about the need to get
> > the 115200, N81 settings correct.
> >
> > John
> >