Manufacturers of test-and-measurement equipment have long recognized the need to allow for automated testing. So, they usually build equipment with some type of I/O interface. The General-Purpose ...

Standards for interconnecting instruments date back to the mid-1960s when Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent Technologies) developed the HP-IB, or Hewlett-Packard interface bus, also known as GPIB ...

Walk into any test bay today, and there's a good chance you'll encounter racks of individual instruments, all communicating via GPIB (general-purpose interface-bus) ports under the control of a ...

Once instrumentation bus options are known, an app usually dictates the type of bus or buses best suited to its needs Data acquisition and test and measurement system performance depends as much on ...

In the world of (expensive) lab test equipment the GPIB (general purpose interface bus) connection is hard to avoid if you want any kind of automation, but nobody likes wrangling with the bulky cables ...