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GPIB Analyzer

Has anyone come up with a means of communicating
with the GPIB+ Analyzer components, from their own
code? There appears to be no published API for the
Analyzer hardware, and I need to incorporate its
features into my application!
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Hello Dave:

This not possible currently but its on our todo list for future development.

-NI support.
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Forgive me if, as a working engineer, I take "not possible" as a challange to at least understand more!

Clearly, the Analyzer utility does exactly this. Given the necessary information, there is no reason why my code could not.

Where can I go from here, to learn what I need?
How does the Plus hardware differ from the non-Plus? Are there undocumented hooks in the NI 488.2 drivers or libraries
to access the added functions, or is all the work done in-line, within Analyzer?

How much can be done with the "standard" calls? It appears that NI-Spy could come close to what I need (monitoring,
capturing, and time-tagging traffic on a GPIB bus, without directly participating in the communication with my interface.)
Since Spy runs on the non-Plus inter
faces, does it also use the basic function calls?

Let's try to keep the communication open!

Dave
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Dave:

Did you ever get any further response? If so, I'd appreciate your sharing any additional information you may have.

Thanks,

-- Jeff
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