Testing NI GPIB-232CV-A

We received the National Instruments GPIB-232CV-A today, I installed the converter and tested it. The interesting thing was that I could use the mouse or keyboard plug, rather than a AC/DC power supply to provide the power for this board.

In order to make sure the board worked, I connect a TDS2042 oscilloscope with GPIB cable to the converter. Before testing, it's necessary to configure the converter parameters. The DIP switches were used to set up the parameters, the setup of SW1 was shown as followed:

Indication	GPIB address					Termination		Mode
Switches	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
ON/OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	ON	OFF	OFF	ON	ON
Note	This address matched the scope GPIB address					LF termination		C

The setup of DIP switch SW2 was shown as below:

Indication	bits per second			Parity	Check	Stop	Data	Flow
Switches	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
ON/OFF	ON	OFF	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	ON	OFF
Note	9600 baud			Odd	Disable	1 bit	8	Disable

After several times to change the DIP switches setup, the scope data was successfully transfered to the computer through scope GPIB port, converter and serial port.