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Does NI cards support HP VEE Pro 6.0 interfaces on a HP-UX 10.2 platform.

Is it possible to use a EISA-GPIB card to interface a HP 8753ES network analyzer
with HP/Agilent VEE Pro 6.0 software running on a HP-UX 10.2 platform. If so where can I find the driver..
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Hello,

The EISA-GPIB board is not supported by the GPIB driver for HP-UX platforms; however, the GPIB-HP700-EISA board is. See the National Instruments Online Catalog for more information about this board. Here is a direct link: http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nioc.vp?lang=US&pc=mn&cid=1248

The GPIB driver for the GPIB-HP700-EISA board is available from the GPIB Support section of the National Instruments site. See the Current GPIB Driver Versions page at http://www.ni.com/support/gpib/versions.htm for a download link.

As for support for this GPIB hardware by HP VEE, check out the VEE Pro 6.0 page on the HP/Agilent site at http://www.hp.com/go/hpvee for more information. I visited that site before writing this, but I could not immediately find a tech note about t
his topic.

FYI, the National Instruments KnowledgeBase has some articles on using National Instruments GPIB hardware with HP VEE, but they are for earlier versions of the HP VEE software. Still, you may find them helpful. To find them, go to the main KnowledgeBase page at http://www.ni.com/public and do a search with the following keywords: "+vee +gpib" (the plus signs limit the search to only those documents that contain the words "vee" and "gpib").

I hope this helps,
Dieter

Dieter Schweiss
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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I have to follow up on this answer, because I made a mistake. Here is the text from the catalog entry for the GPIB-HP700-EISA:

"The GPIB-HP700-EISA is a high-performance IEEE 488.2 interface kit for HP 9000 Model 700 Series workstations equipped with EISA slots. The GPIB-HP700-EISA includes the EISA-GPIB interface board and NI-488.2M software for HP-UX."

So the correct answer to the original question is that the EISA-GPIB board IS supported by the GPIB drivers for HP-UX (the driver mentioned in my original reply).

Dieter Schweiss
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Thanks for the follow-up, but will the EISA-GPIB card and the NI-488.2M driver work with HP VEE Pro 6.0 on a HP-UX 10.2 platform
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