Hi Brian,
The GPIB-USB-B device is simply a hardware device that responds to the driver you have installed for the device. The NI-488.2 drivers which control the device have complete NI-VISA functionality, and there is even an instrument driver on our website available for this device which uses GPIB and VISA. You can click
here to go to the download page. The GPIB-USB-B should work great for this application.
John M
Applications Engineer