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Grobe From curiosity – What equipment as of 2025 will benefit from this? Assuming it's not generic consumer products? Reply
USAFRet Grobe said: From curiosity – What equipment as of 2025 will benefit from this? Assuming it's not generic consumer products? Possibly here: https://www.rapidonline.com/rohde-schwarz-ho740-ieee-488-gbip-interface-64-5984 "For mounting into Oscilloscopes HM1008, HM1508, HM1008-2, HM1500-2, HM1508-2, HM2005-2, HM2008, Series HMF, HMO, HMP and HMS" Reply
anoldnewb Grobe said: From curiosity – What equipment as of 2025 will benefit from this? Assuming it's not generic consumer products? Legacy test and measurement equipment. The standard was last revised in 2004: IEEE/IEC 60488-2-2004. If you have a working testing setup using many 488 based instruments you could port the setup to a modern computer and operating system. It could have originally been running on windows 2000 or older. Sometimes, the update to a new windows version could break the driver. Also, this would provide a path to maintain or update an existing testing setup which could combine the older legacy IEEE 488 stuff and equipment utilizing modern interfaces. Some of that old HP test equipment was built like a tank and also easy to repair and calibrate. Reply
AndreVerga As of today, it is still the de facto standard for the any testing equipment in a lab or in production environment. Modern semiconductor testing machines interface one another using GPIB, and I mean current generation machines testing current generation electronics. The standard is very much alive, and given it's solidity and little change in the years it provides a functional way to keep the industry moving forward while maintaining compatibility with older equipment. Some equipment has moved to gpib over Ethernet, but it might be a couple of decades before it really catches on enough to become widespread enough to really leverage all the bandwidth available and evolve past a wrapping of a protocol in a different communication method. If it works, why change it? Grobe said: From curiosity – What equipment as of 2025 will benefit from this? Assuming it's not generic consumer products? Reply
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meski42 I miss the days when HP were known for their expanding range of test equipment. And good printers. Reply
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