[time-nuts] Prologix GPIB-USB Controllerfirmwareupdate-version4.60

John Miles jmiles at pop.net
Sun Jun 10 16:52:33 EDT 2007


Also look at John Ackerman's stuff:
http://www.febo.com/geekworks/data-capture/index.html  His approach is quite
a bit smarter than mine, in that he uses completely-different processes for
acquisition and display.  If you would prefer to learn a lot of smaller
tools versus coding everything yourself in C/C++, John's methods are really
nice.  Realistically, that's a better way to go for most people.

-- john, KE5FX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> Behalf Of John Miles
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:07 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Prologix GPIB-USB
> Controllerfirmwareupdate-version4.60
>
>
> The biggest favor you can do for yourself is to learn C.  That gives you
> access to wonderful professional-level development tools and a
> large example
> code base for GPIB programming (mine as well as others).
>
> Beyond that, doing things like ADEV graphs is just a matter of plugging in
> the formulas from various app notes and/or translating legacy HP-BASIC
> programs.
>
> -- john, KE5FX
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> > Behalf Of Mike Feher
> > Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 12:24 PM
> > To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Prologix GPIB-USB Controller
> > firmwareupdate-version4.60
> >
> >
> > Can someone suggest a book or some means by which I can learn
> > this language,
> > and, use it with a PC. All my programming experience had line
> > numbers and I
> > understood them, subroutines and all. I have a bunch of HP
> > equipment that I
> > would love to learn how to collect data from and manipulate it. I
> > do have a
> > NI GPIB to USB adaptor which I use successfully with software written by
> > John, KE5FX. That works fine as intended, but, how do I do it? How for
> > example do I take the output of my 5345A and get an ADEV from it, as an
> > example? Seems everyone knows, but, I am in the dark. Admit that I am a
> > hardware guy and have only programmed in FORTRAN and Basic.
> Thanks - Mike
>




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