IEEE-488

IEEE-488, also known as GPIB or HP-IB, comprises a set of standards which allows various test and measurement gear to be controlled and queried remotely.

The following standards are involved:

• IEEE-488.1 mechanical, electrical and basic protocol
• IEEE-488.2 formats and common commands
• SCPI standard commands, built on top of IEEE-488.2

While IEEE-488.1 defines the "Centronix-style" parallel connector, the other standards are in fact seen over other types of connections: RS-232, DB25 parallel connectors, and so on.

Sigrok aims to support all of this: all of the command sets, on any device supporting them, across any interface.

Interfaces

Device	Status	Comments
Chinese 82357B clone	planned
Prologix GPIB-USB	not yet supported	Hardware needed
Prologix GPIB-Ethernet	not yet supported	Hardware needed
Galvant Industries GPIB-USB board	not yet supported	Hardware needed
Agilent 82357B USB/GPIB interface	not yet supported	Hardware needed

Command sets

Command set	Status	Comments
SCPI	planned	The standard is available here
IEEE-488.2	not yet supported	Standard document needed

References

• IEEE-488 overview at wikipedia.
• SCPI overview at wikipedia.