Design and Implementation of the Universal RS232-GPIB Interface

Author

Xiaoru, Han ; Yudong, Gao

Author_Institution

Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang

fYear

2007

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to outline a universal RS232-to-GPIB interface which can enable a computer with an RS232 serial port to be a GPIB Talker or GPIB Listener and has the capable of interfacing RS232 instruments and peripherals to the GPIB. The dominating feature of the interface is that the baud rate of the serial communication can be adjusted by the user and the data flow can be controlled automatically. In this paper, the National Instruments TNT4882 and the 8051 microcontroller are used to realize the interface. This paper mainly presents the hardware architecture and software design of the RS232-GPIB interface.

Keywords

microcontrollers; peripheral interfaces; 8051 microcontroller; GPIB Listener; GPIB Talker; IEEE488; National Instruments TNT4882; RS232 instruments; RS232 serial port; data flow; general purpose interface bus; serial communication; universal RS232-GPIB interface; ANSI standards; Automatic control; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Computer peripherals; Hardware; Instruments; Logic arrays; Microcontrollers; BAUD RATE; GPIB; IEEE488; TNT4882;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Measurement and Instruments, 2007. ICEMI '07. 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1136-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1136-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMI.2007.4350894

Filename

4350894