We are developing an instrument based on a proprietary cards and a single-board-computer (SBC) in a CompactPCI chassis. We're currently using an NI GPIB-PXI card in that chassis to make it into a GPIB device, but I want to know if we can use the SBC's built-in 10/100 port and NI's GPIB-ENET to do the same thing.
Note that I don't want to control other instruments from the SBC; I want the SBC (and therefore the entire box) to behave like an instrument, to be controlled from another computer.
Thanks!
p.s. the reason I would make the GPIB interface external to the box is to save a slot; the chassis we are using is 6 slots, and we would like to leave as many slots as possible for our cards.
