[time-nuts] Getting GPIB to work on HP5382B Universal

[John Miles]

You don't need NI-Visa for the GPIB Toolkit, but you do need NI488.2
drivers.  You can get NI488.2 support with the Agilent I/O libraries.

You won't, however, be able to use the GPIB Toolkit to graph anything
directly, except for the cases that it already handles.  There is a time-
and frequency-stability analysis app in the current GPIB Toolkit beta, but
it's meant for the HP 5370 and SR 620 time-interval counters, not
frequency-oriented instruments like the 5328B.  (With 10-ns resolution it
would be possible to get some basic low-resolution stability graphs out of
the 5328B, but I don't have an easy way to support it right now.)

You might have a look at Ulrich Bangert's PLOTTER and EZ-GPIB utilities.  If
you can write a basic data-logging solution with either Labview, EZ-GPIB, or
the talk.exe/query.exe/listen.exe utilities in the GPIB Toolkit, you can
graph the resulting data with PLOTTER.

Alternatively, you could contact me offline and we could try to get support
for the 5328B into the TI.EXE utility...

-- john, KE5FX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> Behalf Of Jerome Peters
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:01 PM
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Getting GPIB to work on HP5382B Universal
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for your response, It is good to see that there are some
> solutions.  However ~$1,250 for the Base version of LabView is a
> bit steep for tinkering in the garage.
>
> So it sounds like the NI-Visa and the KE5FX gpib toolkit is all I
> need to get a graph of the frequencies measured?
> Would the HP/Agilent version of Visa work as well?
>
> Best Regards,
> Jerome
> KC6ENE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark C. Stephens
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:38 PM
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] Getting GPIB to work on HP5382B Universal
>
> Hello Jerome,
>
>
> I use Labview with a NI GPIB card.
>
> There are already data logging modules using the HP5328B for labview.
>
> The code is easily modified and using labview you can debug by
> single step etc.
>
> Even if you have access to an old ISA bus GPIB card only, you can
> set up a GPIB network server.
>
> All you need is any old machine with an ISA bus and a network card.
>
> You can then access your instruments via NI visa over the TCP/IP.
>
> There is a ton of labview modules kicking around for nearly every
> instrument with a GPIB port.
>
> There is even a labview module that runs a 5328B counter and a
> 59501A DAC to control a crystal oven!
>
> Using NI-Visa, you can also run the KE5FX gpib toolkit which is
> provided by our very own John Miles.
>
> The toolkit provides phase noise measurements among other things.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Mark
> VK2HMC
>
>
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:37:34 -0700
> From: Jerome Peters <jpeters at nvidia.com>
> Subject: [time-nuts] Getting GPIB to work on HP5382B Universal counter
> To: "'time-nuts at febo.com'" <time-nuts at febo.com>
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> Hello,
>
> I'd very much appreciate any help that I can get in setting up a
> HP5328B to communicate over GPIB.
> The goal is to log/graph the frequency over time of various VFO's
> projects I'm working on.
>
> I am using the Agilent 82357A USB to GPIB Interface, I have the
> manual for the counter, so I know some of the basic GPIB commands.
> I've downloaded the Agilent IO Libraries Suite 15.5 and it looks
> like I can send simple commands to the counter, but I am not
> having any luck reading from the counter.
>
> I'd like to use Visual Basic to send commands and receive the
> frequency measurements... but need some HP5328B specific libraries?
>
>
> Thanks/Best Regards,
> Jerome
> KC6ENE
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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