Prologix USB To Gpib Controller Review

I bought a Prologix USB to GPIB controller to communicate with an old temperature controller in our lab via LabView. Basically, Prologix creates a serial port and you use standard serial communications to communicate with the target device and Prologix - you don't use GPIB protocols. In short, commands sent to Prologix are forwarded to the GPIB device (and responses from the GPIB device are sent back to the host computer). If you need to talk to the controller (e.g. to change the GPIB address…

One of the cheapest protocol converters that can be used on older HP devices and other devices that use GPIB but work over the USB interface. If you write your own code or communicate with the device via terminal emulation, this will definitely work. I just send the specific commands I need, capture the stream of data, and then parse the output in Excel using homebrew scripts. If you know the market, there are almost no converters in this price range.

Requires installation of drivers not included with device. On my MS Windows machine, the drivers were found on the web and downloaded and then installed automatically, but it took quite a long time. After installing the driver, the device turns your GPIB device into a serial port - COM4 on my computer. You can then send SCPI commands to the device and get responses to queries or query commands. Works great for plain ASCII text strings. But I couldn't do that when reading a byte array with…

Does what it's supposed to. I had an old HP 3478 that I wanted to hook up to my computer for automatic measurements and it worked. The documentation could be a bit better, but that goes for pretty much everything.

I bought this device to automate current and battery life testing for my projects. I use Python, pyVISA and Octave on Linux to collect, plot and report results; Setting up the interface and working with it was trivial. The device works flawlessly with all my devices (HP E3640A, 33120A, 34401A and 54501A). I am very happy with this purchase; I plugged it in and it just worked. Really high praise.

Easy to use interface, compatible with various programming languages (Visual Basic, C++, Python, .) and with several applications provided by the manufacturer for free or by third parties (eg B. Plottergeist allows you to emulate HP plotters or printers). I use this interface with HP85B without problems.