GPIB Module for Perl

Here is an update to the GPIB module with a few small changes. The module name is changed from "gpib" to "GPIB" to conform to CPAN naming conventions, I hope to contribute this module to CPAN. I also fixed a small problem that was causing trouble compiling the XS modules on Perl 5.6.x. I am using this with a 2.4 Linux kernel, Windows 2000, and the latest drivers from National Instruments for their GPIB cards. The new release is version 0.30. Other than than these small changes, this release is largely unchanged from the release 2.5 years ago...

May 31, 1999

This collection of Perl modules provides an easy method for doing small programming tasks on GPIB devices and a structure for writing sophisticated instrument control applications where code can be easily resused. Consistent with the overall Perl philosophy, these modules hopefully make easy things easy and difficult things possible.

This package has been tested on both Linux and NT4.0 on a variety of GPIB and serial devices. I've tested with the following:

• NT4.0 using National Instrument PCI-GPIB card
• NT4.0 using remote network access to GPIB server
• Linux 2.0.36 using National Instruments PCI-GPIB card (NI driver)
• Linux 2.0.36 using PCIIA card with LLP driver
• Linux 2.0.36 using serial access to HP33120A and HPE3631A.
• Linux 2.0.36 using remote network access to GPIB server
• Linux 2.0.36 running GPIB server for remote access

This is the first outside release, 3/31/99.
Version 0.30 source code (1/1/2): gpib_0_30.tgz (55 kbytes).
Version 0.20 source code (5/31/99): gpib_0_20.tgz (55 kbytes).
Version 0.20 release notes: README.txt.

Look at some screenshots and examples of Perl-GPIB programs.

Jeff Mock