ibic-Interface Bus Interactive Control Utility
Chapter 5
NI-488.2M UM for Windows NT
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1.
To run
ibic
, change to the appropriate drive and directory (
c:\gpib -nt
in this
example). Then enter the command
ibic
. Your screen should appear as follows:
National Instruments
IEEE 488 Interface Bus Interactive Control Program (IBIC)
Copyright 1993 National Instruments Corp. Version 3.0 (Win32)
Version Date: May 28 1993 Version Time: 09:42:25
All rights reserved
Type ‘help’ for help or ‘q’ to quit
:
2.
Use
ibdev
to find the device name which is assigned to your device in the
ibconf
program. The following example shows how you could use
ibdev
to open a
device, assign it to access board
gpib0
, choose a primary address of 6 with no
secondary address, set a timeout of 10 s, enable the END message, and disable the
EOS mode:
:ibdev
enter board index: 0
enter primary address: 6
enter secondary address: 0
enter timeout: 13
enter 'EOI on last byte' flag: 1
enter end-of-string mode/byte: 0
id = 32256
ud0:
You could also input all the same information with the
ibdev
command as follows:
:ibdev 0 6 0 13 1 0
id = 32256
ud0:
3.
Clear the device as follows:
ud0: ibclr
[0100] (cmpl)
