Advantech's new PCI-1670 is a high-performance PCI-bus card with a GPIB interface. The card is fully compatible with IEEE 488.1 and 488.2 standards with its PCI 2.1 bus specific action. With two driver control modes: controller mode and slave mode; PCI-1670 can perform basic the IEEE 488 talker, listener and controller functions required by IEEE 488.2. You can also connect up to 15 GPIB devices. Therefore, PCI-1670 is especially suitable for instrument measurement and control.

The PCI-1670 is available for Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP and DOS, and it supports complete drivers and libraries. To make driver development easier, PCI-1670 comes with example drivers programmed in: Visual C++®, Borland® C++ Builder®, Labwindows/CVI®, Visual Basic®, Delphi® and LabVIEW®. Furthermore, PCI-1670 also offers powerful testing features and a configuration utility that allows users to easily access and control instruments.

PCI-1670 offers a comprehensive supplementary controller driver database and provides NI-like commands to help users develop applications. Users can use an interactive GPIB window interface to control devices directly without any need of programming.

Click here to download the PCI-1670 datasheet (PDF format)

Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What is GPIB?
A: It's a 'General Purpose Interface Bus', that allows you to connect a PC and an instrument together. This makes it possible to use a PC to control instruments and read their measurements.

Q: What applications is the PCI-1670 GPIB Card designed for?
A: With this high-performance GPIB card, users can connect up to 15 GPIB devices. Therefore, PCI-1670 is especially suitable for instrument measurement and control. PCI-1670 also offers powerful testing features and a configuration tool that allows users to easily access and control instruments.

Q: What's the standard of your GPIB card?
A: It's standardized for IEEE-488, IEEE-488.1 and IEEE-488.2. (IEEE-488.2 covers both IEEE-488 and IEEE-488.1.)

Q: Does it support the LabVIEW driver?
A: Yes. Furthermore it supports libraries for users to operate with the most popular programming languages, even commands similar to those used by National Instruments® are provided to help programmers that are familiar with LabVIEW® and LabWindows/CVI®.

Q: Which operating systems can your GPIB card run on?
A: Windows® 2000/95/98/ME/NT/XP® and DOS, and it fully supports drivers and libraries. To facilitate driver development, the PCI-1670 comes with sample drivers programmed in: Visual C++®, Borland C++ Builder®, LabWindows/CVI®, Visual Basic®, Delphi® and LabVIEW®.

Q: How can I replace National Instrument's GPIB card?
A: The product comes with a driver and a startup guide that shows you how to replace the card and the driver.

Q. Has any performance testing been run on Advantech's PCI-1670 GPIB Card?
A. Yes. The aim of the test was to determine the performance of the transfer rate for the Advantech PCI-1670 GPIB card. This includes IEEE 488 bus 3-wire handshake rates and block data transfer rates .The test platform used an IPC with a Pentium III 1.0G Hz CPU , 128 SDRAM and a 7200 r.pm. hard disk. DUT is the Agilent E4401B spectrum analyzer. Click here to download the test results.

Q: Where can I learn more about GPIB in general?
A: You can view http://www.transera.com/htbasic/tutgpib.html

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