There are also some USB versions of the NI GPIB. These
are driver compatible with the NI drivers for the other cards,
you do not need any extra drivers or software changes.
The USB-GPIB from NI are available in at least three versions
so far. On Ebay, they seem to be selling at between $250 and
I too buy a fair number of GPIB cards, about 10-15 a year for use in the
equipment I sell. I have bought four NI GPIB PCI cards in the last few
months. One did not work as expected. I was horrified when I called NI.
They asked that I pay $200 U.S for a support contract so that they
could
Didier Juges wrote:
Other than that, in my experience, NI products have been remarkably
compatible in the last 10 years, from a 30,000 feet level (plug pretty much
anything into anything and it will work with any NI software, even though
performance will vary and you may need new drivers).
In a message dated 21/03/2008 02:13:32 GMT Standard Time,
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This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a question
(vaguely related to time and frequency) - is there a real difference
between the half sized current one large chip NI PCI-GPIB card and the
older
This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a question
(vaguely related to time and frequency) - is there a real difference
between the half sized current one large chip NI PCI-GPIB card and the
older and larger version with multiple chips that proceeded it ?
Which would you
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Subject: [time-nuts] NI GPIB cards
This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a
question (vaguely related to time and frequency) - is there a
real