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Advance Technologies; Automate the World.

Manual Rev.

2.00

Revision Date:

April 14, 2005

Part No:

50-15039-10

PCI-3488

IEEE488 GPIB Interface Card

User’s Manual

Summary of Contents for PCI-3488

Page 1: ...Advance Technologies Automate the World Manual Rev 2 00 Revision Date April 14 2005 Part No 50 15039 1000 PCI 3488 IEEE488 GPIB Interface Card User s Manual...

Page 2: ...tial damages arising out of the use or inability to use the product or documentation even if advised of the possibility of such damages This document contains proprietary information protected by copy...

Page 3: ...ice adlinktech com TEL 886 2 82265877 FAX 886 2 82265717 Address 9F No 166 Jian Yi Road Chungho City Taipei 235 Taiwan Please email or FAX this completed service form for prompt and satisfactory servi...

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Page 5: ...of Package 5 2 2 Unpacking 6 2 3 Mechanical Drawing 7 2 4 PCI Configuration 8 Plug and Play 8 Configuration 8 Trouble shooting 8 2 5 Hardware Installation 9 Installation Procedures 9 Cabling 9 2 6 Sof...

Page 6: ...ii List of Tables List of Tables Table 1 1 Power Requirements 3 Table 3 1 GPIB Bus 26...

Page 7: ...List of Figures Figure 2 1 PCB layout of the PCI 3488 7 Figure 2 2 Linear Connection Configuration 10 Figure 2 3 Star Connection Configuration 10 Figure 3 1 Standard GPIB Connector 25 Figure 3 2 PCI 3...

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Page 9: ...when developing this newly designed GPIB controller The PCI 3488 supports both 3 3V and 5V PCI buses and can be adapted to most industrial and desktop computers On board 1KB FIFO is placed between the...

Page 10: ...ides NI like driver API VISA support X Interactive utility for testing and diagnostics X Compact half size PCB 1 2 Specifications GPIB Bus Properties X Up to 14 instruments can be connected to one con...

Page 11: ...8 provides device drivers for Windows 98 NT 2000 XP and DOS operating systems The ADGPIB driver package also provides a diagnostic utility to test your PCI 3488 GPIB card as well as programming sample...

Page 12: ...4 Introduction...

Page 13: ...o install PCI 3488 hardware and software 2 1 Contents of Package The package includes the following items X PCI 3488 X ADLINK All in one Compact Disc X This User s Manual If any of these items are mis...

Page 14: ...static mat The operator should be wearing an anti static wrist band grounded at the same point as the anti static mat Inspect the module for obvious damage Shipping and handling may cause damage to th...

Page 15: ...Installation 7 2 3 Mechanical Drawing Figure 2 1 PCB layout of the PCI 3488...

Page 16: ...basis for all PCI boards on your system Because configuration is controlled by the system and software there is no jumper setting required for base address DMA and interrupt IRQ The configuration is s...

Page 17: ...ce at the rear panel of the system 8 Put your computer s case back on Turn on your computer and install the software follow below soft ware install instruction Cabling Following connection configurati...

Page 18: ...n Note At star connection the total current load will be less if the ca ble connection on individual instrument is less than three Figure 2 2 Linear Connection Configuration Figure 2 3 Star Connection...

Page 19: ...Is and a binary compatible gpib 32 dll for users who use LabVIEW LabWindow CVI VC VB and Delphi PCI 3488 also supports VISA to be adequate to most available instru ment drivers Driver installation For...

Page 20: ...12 Installation 3 Reboot your system to complete setup...

Page 21: ...Install ADLGPIB driver package 4 Run Agilent Connection Expert to verify and manage all instruments connected to PCI 3488 Note You may download the IO Libraries Suite 14 0 from Agilent Developer Netw...

Page 22: ...14 Installation For NI VISA Libraries Users Note Please install NI 488 2 version 1 7 if you want to use PCI 3488 with NI VISA 1 Launch National Instruments Measurement and Auto mation Explorer...

Page 23: ...Installation 15 2 Right click on Devices and Interfaces and choose Create New...

Page 24: ...16 Installation 3 Choose GPIB Interface and click Finish button The Add GPIB Hardware Wizard appears...

Page 25: ...Installation 17 4 Choose the AT GPIB TNT and click Next...

Page 26: ...18 Installation 5 Discard appearing Configuration Settings for the AT GPIB TNT dialog No DIP setting is necessary for PCI 3488...

Page 27: ...Installation 19 6 Click Finish button to finish the configuration of ADLINK PCI 3488 in National Instruments MAX A GPIB0 interface appears in MAX...

Page 28: ...o verify and manage all instruments connected to PCI 3488 Note The AT GPIB TNT is no longer supported in latest version of NI488 2 version 2 1 or later If you need to use PCI 3488 with VISA we recomme...

Page 29: ...am ADLINK GPIB Utility to let you diagnose and verify your GPIB con nections You can find the GPIB Utility in x ADLINK ADLG PIB Utility GPIB Utility exe Here are the illustrations of using ADLINK GPIB...

Page 30: ...22 Installation 2 Click on a GPIB interface GPIB0 GPIB1 and select Setting GPIB Preference A GPIB Interface Bus Setting dialog appears to let you configure your GPIB interface...

Page 31: ...Installation 23 3 Double click on a connected GPIB instrument A GPIB Interactive control dialog appears to let you write com mand strings to your GPIB instrument and read the result...

Page 32: ...24 Installation...

Page 33: ...card 3 1 Connection Configuration The GPIB bus has 24 lines which are divided into 16 signal lines and 8 ground return or shield drain lines The 16 signal lines can be divided into 8 bit parallel dat...

Page 34: ...DIO2 3 DIO3 4 DIO4 13 DIO5 14 DIO6 15 DIO7 16 DIO8 8 control lines 5 system management lines 5 EOI 9 IFC 10 SRQ 11 ATN 17 REN 3 handshake lines 6 DAV 7 NRFD 8 NDAC 8 ground lines 1 shield drain line 1...

Page 35: ...manage the flow of control and data bytes across the interface X EOI End or Identify used by a talker to indicate the end of a multiple byte transfer sequence or in conjunction with ATN by a controlle...

Page 36: ...e of the art state machine in CPLD coor dinates the data flow between PCI controller FIFO and GPIB bus Figure 3 2 PCI 3488 Block Diagram The FIFO can buffer data from master either from PCI controller...

Page 37: ...anufactured by ADLINK will be covered by the original manufactur ers warranty X For products containing storage devices hard drives flash cards etc please back up your data before send ing them for re...

Page 38: ...cals X Damage caused by leakage of battery fluid during or after change of batteries by customer user X Damage from improper repair by unauthorized techni cians X Products with altered and or damaged...

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