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TAMS 61488/64487/64488/

65488 GPIB Cards for

Windows XP/Vista

Installation & Operation

Summary of Contents for 61488

Page 1: ...TAMS 61488 64487 64488 65488 GPIB Cards for Windows XP Vista Installation Operation...

Page 2: ...8 GPIB Interface Installation Operation Test Measurement Systems Inc 750 14th Street SW Loveland Colorado 80537 USA Telephone 970 669 6553 Fax 970 669 3090 Web Site www tamsinc com Copyright Test Meas...

Page 3: ...ivalent Loads Resistor Packs 7 Installing the GPIB Interface 8 Connecting the GPIB Cable 9 New Hardware Wizard 10 Using the Device Manager 13 Configuring the Card for Windows 2000 XP 15 Using the Inte...

Page 4: ...th a standard height bracket only The TAMS 61488 provides a single GPIB bus with a 32 bit 33 MHz PCI 3 0 implementation The otherTAMS Interfaces are one lane PCI Express implementations that can be us...

Page 5: ...please return it to TAMS Please call or Fax for return instructions Internationally please contact the local distributor for return instructions Any customer may contact TAMS or return products direc...

Page 6: ...rrect driver that is associated with the TAMS PCI PCI Express GPIB interface If the IO Libraries are reinstalled or updated then the 6x488 driver software must then be reinstalled Hardware Installatio...

Page 7: ...alled If your bus system will have more than nine additional devices carefully remove both of the resistor packs and store them If the resistors need to be reinstalled later on be sure that the visual...

Page 8: ...multiple cards it is a good idea to write the switch setting on the metal support bracket with a felt tipped pen Refer to the Owner s Guide of your computer for instructions on opening your computer...

Page 9: ...be attached directly to any GPIB device or to any device in a chain of GPIB devices The following illustrations show possible connections The lower illustration shows two connectors daisey chained wi...

Page 10: ...10 New Hardware Wizard After the PCI or PCI Express card is installed in the computer New Hardware Wizard will detect the card and associate the appropriate driver at the next bootup ClickonNext...

Page 11: ...11 You will get a screen that looks like this ClickonNext...

Page 12: ...nstallation process for a 61448 64487 or 64488 For a 65488 the process is repeated for the other GPIB channel In order to use the TAMS GPIB Interface the Agilent IO Libraries needs to be configured to...

Page 13: ...ice Manager It will bring up a new dialog that shows all the devices that are in the system All of the TAMS 61488 64487 64488 and 65488 cards will be listed under TAMS PCI PCI Express GPIB Interfaces...

Page 14: ...he position of the Rotary Switch as well as the Firmware Revision Firmware revision will be 6 or greater for a 61488 card and 17 or greater for one of the PCI Express cards You set other GPIB configur...

Page 15: ...If you are running I O Libraries Suite 14 or 15 then you need to manually run iocfg32 exe from the IO Libraries Suite bin directory Note If the Agilent IO Libraries were installed using the default v...

Page 16: ...nterface Types and double click on it or click on Configure The following window will appear if you have multiple interfaces to configure such as with a 65488 card Select the interface you wish to con...

Page 17: ...make sure that this GPIB address does NOT conflict with any other GPIB device on the same bus The 65488 card with two separate busses can use the same address for both busses The Minimum T1 Delay affe...

Page 18: ...o unique numbers and must not conflict with switch settings on other 61488 64488 65448 cards in the system The System Controller checkbox indicates if this interface is the GPIB System Controller Typi...

Page 19: ...CL name For multiple gpib interfaces such as you have with the 65488 product it is necessary to make a copy of the HPIBS dW6 driver file such as HPIBS1 dW6 and load that file also LOADBIN HPIBS1 DEVgp...

Page 20: ...gement or violation of this License Agreement TRANSFER OF RIGHTS IN SOFTWARE Customer may transfer rights in the software to a third party only as part of the transfer of all their rights and only if...

Page 21: ...ble amount of time Customer s alternate remedy shall be a refund of the purchase price upon return of the entire product and all copies NOTICE OF WARRANTY CLAIMS Customer must notify TAMS in writing o...

Page 22: ...l information This Warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state and from country to country This Warranty is in Lieu of all other express...

Page 23: ...488 Interfaces 1IEEE488 61488 64487 64488 2IEEE488 65488 1PCI 61488 1PCI Expressx1 64487 64488 65488 Power Required 3 3V 0 65amps 64487 64488 65488 12V 0 25amps 64487 64488 12V 0 40amps 65488 5v 30 am...

Page 24: ...TAMS GPIB Cards for Windows XP Vista Printed in USA E09 01 08 Part 6x488 90001...