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IEEE 488 Primer
4.1 HISTORY
The IEEE 488 bus is an instrumentation communication bus adopted by the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 1975, revised in 1978 and revised and
extended in 1987. The Digital488HS/32 conforms to this most recent revision
designated IEEE 488.1.
Prior to the adoption of this standard, most instrumentation manufacturers offered
their own versions of computer interfaces. This placed the burden of system hardware
design on the end user. If his application required the products of several different
manufacturers, then he might need to design several different hardware and software
interfaces. The popularity of the IEEE 488 interface (sometimes called the General
Purpose Interface Bus or GPIB) is due to the total specification of the electrical and
mechanical interface as well as the data transfer and control protocols. The use of the
IEEE 488 standard has moved the responsibility of the user from design of the
interface to design of the high level software that is specific to the measurement
application.
4.2 GENERAL STRUCTURE
The main purpose of the IEEE 488.1 interface is to transfer information between two
or more devices. A device can either be an instrument or a computer. Before any
information transfer can take place, it is first necessary to specify which will do the
talking (send data) and which devices will be allowed to listen (receive data). The
decision of who will talk and who will listen usually falls on the System Controller
which is, at power on, the Active Controller.
The System Controller is similar to a committee chairman. On a well run
committee, only one person may speak at a time and the chairman is responsible for
recognizing members and allowing them to have their say. On the bus, the device
which is recognized to speak is the Active Talker. There can only be one Talker at a
time if the information transferred is to be clearly understood by all. The act of
"giving the floor" to that device is called Addressing to Talk. If the committee
chairman can not attend the meeting, or if other matters require his attention, he can
appoint an acting chairman to take control of the proceedings. For the GPIB, this
device becomes the Active Controller.
At a committee meeting, everyone present usually listens. This is not the case with
the GPIB. The Active Controller selects which devices will listen and commands all
other devices to ignore what is being transmitted. A device is instructed to listen by
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