Description of the GPIB-100A
Chapter 1
GPIB-100A User Manual
1-4
© National Instruments Corporation
Table 1-2. Performance Characteristics
Characteristic
Specification
speed
250 to 135 kbytes/sec (approximately 4
µ
sec per byte
degraded at 10.5 nsec per meter of distance) no
limitation to device speeds when there are no
listeners
on remote side of extension
functionality
transparent GPIB operation except for pulsed parallel
polls
interlocked
maintained across the extension
IEEE-488 handshake
(message-grams not used)
IEEE-488 capability
SH1
complete Source Handshake
identification
AH1
complete Acceptor Handshake
codes
T5,TE5
complete Talker
L3,LE3
complete Listener
SR1
complete Service Request
RL1
complete Remote Local
PP1,2
complete Parallel Poll
DC1
complete Device Clear
DT1
complete Device Trigger
C1-5
complete Controller
E1
open collector GPIB drivers
Table 1-3. Operating Characteristics
Characteristic
Specification
architecture
asynchronous (no clock) parallel design
point-to-point (not multi-drop) transmission
operating modes
Talker/Listener/Controller or
Talker/Listener (Talk Only)
Parallel Poll Response
Buffered Parallel Poll Response or
modes
Unbuffered Parallel Poll Response
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