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BRAIN BOXES

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PC ELITE

4.6 EDITION March, 1995

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Page 1: ...BRAIN BOXES ______________ PC ELITE 4 6 EDITION March 1995...

Page 2: ...d No part of this hardware circuitry or manual may be duplicated copied transmitted or reproduced in any way without the prior written consent of BRAIN BOXES PC Elite is designed manufactured and supp...

Page 3: ...the authors permission Thus you will be committing a crime when unlawfully copying programs from one machine to another and so will be liable to arrest Software authors like the author of Pro 488 earn...

Page 4: ...ood by our staff Its great strength is the software support we give it Our intention is to supply the software and any technical information you may need to allow you to exercise complete control over...

Page 5: ...rive the Elite card and explains its how its high specification custom design whilst retaining exact compatibility with other manufacturers designs gives it extreme flexibility in its application and...

Page 6: ...us Devices 6 Program Examples 6 Quick Basic Example 7 Turbo Pascal Example 7 Microsoft Lattice C Example 7 Fortran Example 7 IEEE Bus Commands And Functions 8 GPIB COM Driver 9 Documentation Cabling a...

Page 7: ...IEEE Cable 20 Figure 2 11 Connecting The PC To The IEEE Bus 21 Figure 2 12 Standard IEEE 488 Connector Pinouts 21 Chapter 3 Technical Details Introduction 23 Specification 23 Hardware Specification 23...

Page 8: ...rams Pro 488 is available as a stand alone product and is especially cost effective when bundled with an Elite card or sold with a site licence An alternative software interface is available for the E...

Page 9: ...pt Selection _________________ The interrupt hardware allows jumper selection of one of ten PC interrupt request lines IRQ2 to IRQ7 IRQ10 to IRQ12 and IRQ15 The PC ELITE interrupt logic allows interru...

Page 10: ...e have written our own GPIB COM style drivers in house The GPIB COM driver for DOS is order code IE 736 The GPIB COM driver for WINDOWS is order code IE 747 More details about GPIB COM are given later...

Page 11: ...based data acquisition and control Pro 488 is more than just an instrumentation shell its a mature carefully thought out PC based implementation of a superset of Hewlett Packard s HPIB language The co...

Page 12: ...the user can get a good feel of the power and ease of use of the Professional 488 command language in a very short time Most IEEE equipment includes worked examples that are virtually word for word PR...

Page 13: ...ithin delimiters after an OUTPUT command LISTEN 5 DATA 72 69 76 76 79 UNL CR LISTEN 5 STRING HELLO UNL CR OUTPUT HELLO CR Receiving Data From Bus Devices _____________________________ _ Data can be in...

Page 14: ...eset ieeedata Writeln ieeectrl REMOTE 5 OUTPUT R3T3X Readln ieeedata buffer Writeln buffer Close ieeedata Close ieeectrl END Microsoft Lattice C Example __________________________ _ include stdio h in...

Page 15: ...vices under PSI BOX control SLAVE Puts PC into peripheral mode SPOLL Serially Polls one or more devices STRING Sends literal data string to current bus device TO Sets an i o timeout value TRIGGER Init...

Page 16: ...all existing NI applications without any change or recompilations whatsoever The higher performance Elite card with GPIB COM allows migration to a more cost effective platform Complete Documentation a...

Page 17: ...he half size PC ELITE IEEE board will fit into both long or a short slots it can be placed in standard 8 bit PC slots or in the longer 16 bit AT slots If interrupts 10 11 12 or 15 are to be used then...

Page 18: ...be set to produce IRQ interrupt signals such as when an IEEE device asserts its Service Request line SRQ to signal that it has data ready for the PC The DMA jumper block can be set to allow Direct Mem...

Page 19: ...ect Interrupt 7 Factory Set DMA jumper select DMA channel 1 Figure 2 2 Valid PC ELITE IEEE Base Addresses ____________________________________________ DIP 1 DIP 2 DIP 3 Address Type _____ _____ _____...

Page 20: ...IB manual Interrupt Selection _________________ The PC ELITE card can produce interrupts for one of 13 reasons and its INT line can be connected to one of the ten PC Interrupt Request lines using the...

Page 21: ...dows Avoid for OS 2 Windows 95 NT Novell IRQ6 DISK DRIVE STATUS AVOID DEFAULT _______ IRQ7 PRINTER 1 OK for DOS Windows Avoid for OS 2 Windows 95 NT Novell IRQ10 Usually Free PC2 Mode Only IRQ11 Usual...

Page 22: ...should only be set to one of the six valid addresses and the IRQ jumper MUST be set correspondingly When in PC2 mode DIP 3 ON then DIPS 4 6 have no effect Figure 2 4 The PC2a Mode IRQ Clear Address _...

Page 23: ...jumpers on the DMA jumper block are used to select the channel for direct memory access For most users the best position is the factory default DMA 1 Moving the jumper pins select which DMA channel is...

Page 24: ...nt included for each PC ELITE IEEE card in use Each statement must give the individual card i o address and file name E g A PC with three PC ELITE IEEE cards controlling three separate IEEE 488 buses...

Page 25: ...o connector slots in the computer STEP 1 Before the PC ELITE IEEE board can be installed the power to the PC MUST be switched OFF Figure 2 6 Remove Cover Mounting Screws _____________________________...

Page 26: ...back panel KEEP the blanking cover screw safely for later Figure 2 9 Inserting The PC ELITE IEEE Card __________________________________________ STEP 5 Now insert the PC ELITE IEEE card in the slot Be...

Page 27: ...al way Connecting To IEEE Devices _________________________ _ The PC ELITE IEEE board connects to IEEE 488 devices using standard IEEE cables as shown in Figure 2 10 You may find that our special low...

Page 28: ...permanent connection Figure 2 12 Standard IEEE 488 Connector Pinouts ____________________________________________ _ Pin 1 Data bit 0 Pin 13 Data bit 4 Pin 2 Data bit 1 Pin 14 Data bit 5 Pin 3 Data bit...

Page 29: ...set iii Ensure that the power is connected and the PC is switched ON iv Ensure that the IRQ jumper block is set correctly default NO IRQ v Ensure that the PC ELITE IEEE i o address is set correctly de...

Page 30: ..._ The PC Elite card is totally consistent with all electrical mechanical and functional specifications of the IEEE 488 and ANSI MC1 1 standards The PC Elite card is compatible with all revisions of t...

Page 31: ...ler line of the Texas Instruments 75162 GPIB management chip the enabling and disabling of the DMA and IRQ lines the clearing of the IRQ line and the sharing of the DMA and IRQ lines Much of the infor...

Page 32: ...shake Complete capability AH1 Acceptor Handshake Complete capability T5 Talker Function Basic Talker Extended Talker and Talk Only Mode Serial Poll TE5 Extended Talker Unaddress if MLA L3 Listener Fun...

Page 33: ...02BF hex In PC2a mode the 7210 register select lines rs0 rs1 rs2 are connected to the computers address lines A10 A11 and A12 So instead of the registers occupying 8 consecutive addresses each regist...

Page 34: ...e I O Address Base Address ___________________________ The PC ELITE IEEE board i o address can be set to reside at one of 7 base addresses in the PC using the I O Address DIP switches at the lower lef...

Page 35: ...Interrupt Selection _________________ The PC ELITE card can produce interrupts for one of 13 reasons and its INT line can be connected to one of the PC Interrupt Request lines by placing the jumper on...

Page 36: ...her the INT bit and the TLC interrupt pin will be active for that condition SRQ Service ReQuest ___________________ _ There is an SRQ input interrupt flag in bit6 of the interrupt status register 2 Th...

Page 37: ...imum of 100 micro second In normal use IFC should be held HIGH Only pulse IFC when you need to assert control of the bus due to a device crash etc REN Remote ENable __________________ _ The REN line i...

Page 38: ...ffer buffered 7 Cable 20 21 Clear 8 11 15 28 29 30 Config sys 13 17 Configure 8 10 Connecting 20 21 Copyright 24 Cover 18 19 20 Dadisp 3 Data rate 2 Dav 21 Default 10 12 13 14 15 16 22 Device clear 8...

Page 39: ...2 13 17 18 22 24 27 IBM GPIB 3 11 Ieee commands 5 Ifc 8 13 21 25 30 Installation 10 Int 7 13 14 27 28 29 Interface clear 30 Interrupt 2 10 15 26 28 29 Intrrpt sharing 2 28 Irq 10 15 18 22 24 28 29 Irq...

Page 40: ...2a 2 11 15 26 27 28 Poll 8 9 25 26 27 Printer 14 Pro 488 1 3 6 9 11 12 17 23 Prospero 3 Ps 2 10 Quick basic 3 7 Secondary addr 8 Service request 11 26 29 Speed 2 Srq 5 8 11 21 25 29 Syntax error 5 Sys...

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