A new firmware build is available. The headline is VXI-11: a conformance test suite written for this project covers 104 rules of the specification, and all of them now pass. Also in this release — a working abort channel, the VXI-11.2 low-level bus commands, and fixes to link locking, instance names and fragmented RPC records.
Read moreA look at how GPIBee's firmware is verified: a GPIB bus spanning five decades of instruments, regression suites for USBTMC and VXI-11, and a VXI-11 standards compliance suite written from scratch because none existed. Its first run passed 69.4% of its checks. Here is what it found and how that was fixed.
Read moreSomeone asked on YouTube whether GPIBee can be used like the raw TCP socket that many instruments expose on port 5025. It can — here is the short answer, and the one thing that is different because GPIBee is a gateway.
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