
Contents
© National Instruments Corp.
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GPIB-232CT-A for MS-DOS/Windows
Device and Board Characteristics............................................... 5-10
Primary GPIB Address ................................................. 5-10
Secondary GPIB Address ............................................. 5-10
Timeout Settings .......................................................... 5-10
Serial Poll Timeouts (Device
Characteristic Only) ..................................................... 5-11
Terminate READ on EOS ............................................ 5-11
Set EOI with EOS on Write ......................................... 5-11
Type of Compare on EOS ............................................ 5-11
EOS Byte ...................................................................... 5-11
Set EOI at End of Write ............................................... 5-12
System Controller (Board Characteristic
Only)............................................................................. 5-12
Assert REN when SC (Board Characteristic Only) ..... 5-12
Enable Auto Serial Polling (Board
Characteristic Only) ..................................................... 5-12
Enable CIC Protocol (Board
Characteristic Only) ..................................................... 5-13
Bus Timing (Board Characteristic Only) ..................... 5-13
Enable Repeat Addressing (Device
Characteristic Only) ..................................................... 5-13
Use This Interface (Board Characteristic
Only)............................................................................. 5-13
COM Port (Board Characteristic Only) ....................... 5-14
Serial Port Base Address (Board
Characteristic Only) ..................................................... 5-14
Serial Port IRQ Level (Board Characteristic Only) ..... 5-14
Baud Rate (Board Characteristic Only)* ..................... 5-14
Parity (Board Characteristic Only)* ............................. 5-15
Stop Bits (Board Characteristic Only)* ....................... 5-15
Data Bits (Board Characteristic Only)* ....................... 5-15
Exiting IBCONF ......................................................................... 5-15
Appendix A
Hardware Configuration
............................................................... A-1
Configure the RS-232 Serial Port ............................................... A-1
Appendix B
Hardware Specifications
................................................................ B-1