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Your GPIB instrument just got a web interface

GPIBee V1.6 introduces Benches: build a browser front panel for any GPIB instrument in minutes, without writing software. Switch a supply on from the kitchen table, read a meter from your phone, and give a 1985 instrument the web interface it never had.

BenchesV1.6Web interfaceRemote controlNo-code
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Firmware V1.5.2608231522: a step up in VXI-11 compliance

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.

FirmwareReleaseVXI-11
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How GPIBee is tested

A 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.

TestingQualityVXI-11USBTMCFirmware
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Quick take: GPIBee over a raw TCP socket

Someone 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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