Take full advantage of your computer's ability
with a TAMS 80488 HP-IB interface card for PCI
Key Features and Specifications
- High performance HP-IB Interface
- 3.3v or 5v PCI
- Use with Red Hat Linux 8.0, 9.0 & RHEL 3.0
- SICL Compatible
- IEEE488.2 compliant
- 24% faster than the E2071D
I/O performance is imperative in instrument control. The computer should
always be waiting for the instrument and not the other way around. The TAMS 80488 can deliver all the speed that your instruments need.
The TAMS 80488 card operates in both 3.3V and 5V PCI.
The ability of a single card to work at either voltage level allows the
standardization of IEEE 488 interfaces in a single TAMS card. This offers
unprecedented simplicity and reconfiguration possibilities.
TAMS 80488 PERFORMANCE
The TAMS 80488 is an average of 24% faster than the E2071D HP-IB card.
Using a single number to characterize performance of HP-IB, or any type of
I/O operation can be misleading, because many factors affect actual
performance: amount of data being transferred, size of data blocks, difference
between read and write speeds, programming language, computer being used, etc.
As a result, we do not recommend basing any decisions on maximum transfer
rate. However, to conform to the industry standard of specifying maximum I/O
speed, the TAMS 80488 card is specified at 1MB/s.
In actual tests on transfers that ranged in size from 100K to 10MB with
data blocks that varied from 1K to 128K using the E2071D HP-IB card the TAMS 80488 was an average of 20% faster in read and write operations.
The E2071D was selected for comparison because it is probably the most
widely used HP-IB card, and HP specifications have traditionally been very
conservative.
Based on the industry standard TI 9914 chip the TAMS 80488 card meets all
specifications of the industry standard IEEE488.2.
Regardless of the application, your code will now run at full performance
without modification. Thanks to Agilent's (HP) SICL software architecture,
once the TAMS driver is loaded, the 80488 card can be used in any application
without requiring more computer overhead or changes to the code.
System requirements:
1 PCI slot
Red Hat Linux 9 (uniprocessor kernels: 2.4.20-6 & 2.4.20-8) or
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (2.4.21-4.EL and 2.4.21-4.ELsmp). We now support
SMP on RHEL 3.0 as well as uniprocessor.
TAMS I/O Library (SICL) for Linux (included)
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Specifications: |
| Standard: |
Compatible with IEEE 488.1 and IEEE 488.2 |
| Size: |
4.75" x 4.25" x .3" (150x155x7mm) |
| Weight (card only): |
1.5 oz (42 g) |
| Shipping Weight: |
10 oz (455 g) |
