GPIB interface using PERL Scripting

[Gunda]

Hi,

Can someone let me know the basics of interfacing an IEEE(GPIB) instrument using PERL. What are the files to be installed and the steps to be followed

Hardware Used : NI GPIB-PCI card, Agilent 8960 Wireless communcation Test set

Software Used ; NI 488.2 & PERL

OS : WINxp

Looking for an early response.

regards

Kiran

[Matt_S.]

Hi Gnuda,

We don't have official support for this here at NI, BUT this would involve calling the gpib-32 shared library (I'm pretty sure there's documentation on this out there). I've never done this myself, but have been told it's possible. It would just involve making calls to our GPIB library.

Hope this helps a bit,
Matt S.

[Gunda]

Hello Matt,

Thanks for the reply.

I have posted hoping that someone would have worked on this.I feel NI should support me since i'm using their product.

Kiran

[NI-488.2 master]

Kiran,

It looks like there is a perl module available for GPIB on CPAN.  http://search.cpan.org/~jeffmock/GPIB_0_30/ni/ni.pm

NI did not develop this module, so we can't attest to the functionality that it provides.  I hope this provides what you need.

Craig A.
National Instruments Engineer

[AKHuettel]

Have a look at http://www.akhuettel.de/labvisa/

🙂

[AKHuettel]

In case anyone still stumbles upon this thread, we're currently doing a rewrite of this software so we are not hard-locked to NI-VISA anymore. The new (currently beta) version can be found at http://www.labmeasurement.de/ and is able to use different back-ends, e.g. NI-VISA on Windows and LinuxGPIB on Linux.

[Shakim]

Any news about this thread? I have tried to use these libs withou any success. If anyone could help me

[Shakim]

Hi AKHettlelCould you help me on the installation procedure? I have downloaded here but it seems there is something missing.