National Instruments NI-488.2 Time Clock User Manual


 
wibic–Windows Interface Bus Interactive Control Utility Chapter 5
NI-488.2 User Manual for Windows 5-2 © National Instruments Corp.
1. To run wibic, double-click on the wibic icon in the GPIB group in the Program
Manager. A window appears with the following information displayed:
National Instruments
IEEE 488 Interface Bus Interactive Control Program (WIBIC)
Copyright (c) 1993 National Instruments Corp. Version 3.0 (Win16)
Version Date: May 28 1993 Version Time: 09:42:25
All rights reserved
Type 'help' for help or 'q' to quit
:
2. Use ibdev to find the device name which is assigned to your device in the
wibconf program. The following example shows how you could use ibdev to
open a device, assign it to access board gpib0, choose a primary address of 6 with
no secondary address, set a timeout of 10 s, enable the END message, and disable the
EOS mode:
:ibdev
enter board index:
0
enter primary address:
6
enter secondary address:
0
enter timeout:
13
enter 'EOI on last byte' flag:
1
enter end-of-string mode/byte:
0
id = 32256
ud0:
You could also input all the same information with the ibdev command as follows:
:ibdev
0 6 0 13 1 0
id = 32256
ud0:
3. Clear the device as follows:
ud0: ibclr
[0100] (cmpl)