USB-GPIB Labview control from mac

kunnysensei · #1 November 7th, 2006, 10:36 PM

hi, i am looking for a method to control GPIB devices from within Labview on a PPC Mac computer using a USB(2.0)-GPIB cable. Any ideas?

thanks in advance

MisterMe · #2 November 7th, 2006, 10:58 PM

Why a USB 2.0-GP-IB cable? GP-IB and USB are competing technologies for instrument control. Of course, USB 2.0 is built into Macs, but GP-IB is not. The thing that you should do is to buy and install a GP-IB card for your Mac. You can control seven instruments over a single GP-IB cable attached to your computer. Presumeably, you already have LabView. If you don't have a prebuilt virtual instrument for a particular component of your data acquisition apparatus, you can program it within LabView.

kunnysensei · #3 November 8th, 2006, 04:30 AM

I have a Powerbook G4 with OS X and so I might wanna try this when the usb 2 to GP-IB cable is not compatible:

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/10049

don't know if it is compatible with Tiger.