General purpose interface bus

PCII/IIA interface board, and an IEEE-488 General Purpose Interface Bus may be used for communication. The internal command set of the PAR Model 276 interface allows for waveform generation to circumvent the requirement for analog programming. 

Components of a home-built IETS spectrometer. DCV=DC voltage ACV = AC voltage DMM = digital multimeter GPIB-IEEE = General Purpose Interface Bus, according to Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Standard 488 [8]. 

GPIB (general purpose interface bus) graphic (noun) graphical interface... 

Parallel IEEE488 interface is a universal standard developed in closed cooperation with Hewlett-Packard, hence its designation HP-IB (Hewlett Packard Interface Bus). Other manufacturers call it GP-IB (General Purpose Interface Bus). This type of interface is very common in physical and electronic instruments, and also in HP instruments for chemical measurements. 

To enable instruments to be coupled together and controlled in a preprogrammed manner, an internationally accepted bus arrangement has been adopted. It is known variously as the IEEE 488 interface bus, the HPIB (Hewlett Packard interface bus), and the GPIB (general-purpose interface bus). It evolved from the HPIB that was originally formulated in the late 1960s. 

The general purpose interface bus (GPIB) is a link or network by which system units communicate with each other. It is widely used for automation in measurement and control applications. The bus allows the connection of up to 15 devices to a system. Each system participant performs at least one of three roles ... 

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