NAME¶
gpib —
General-Purpose Instrument Bus
(GPIB) driver
SYNOPSIS¶
Either of the
pcii(4) or
tnt4882(4) drivers
use this driver as the backend.
DESCRIPTION¶
The
gpib driver provides support for driving an IEEE-488 bus,
also called IEC-625 (or just "IEC bus"), or HP-IB (Hewlett Packard
Instrument Bus), or GPIB (General Purpose Instrument Bus). The device can
become either a listener, talker, controller, and in particular a master
controller on the bus.
FILES¶
- /dev/gpibNib
- Main device node to access the driver.
- /dev/gpibNl
- Listen-only entry to the driver. When opening, an
instrument can send data to this device on the bus in an unaddressed mode,
for example hard-copy printer data.
SEE ALSO¶
gpib(3),
pcii(4),
tnt4882(4)
HISTORY¶
The
gpib driver was written by Poul-Henning Kamp, and first
appeared in
FreeBSD 5.4.
AUTHORS¶
This manual page was written by
Jörg Wunsch.
