Once instrumentation bus options are known, an app usually dictates the type of bus or buses best suited to its needs Data acquisition and test and measurement system performance depends as much on ...

Standards for interconnecting instruments date back to the mid-1960s when Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent Technologies) developed the HP-IB, or Hewlett-Packard interface bus, also known as GPIB ...

In the world of (expensive) lab test equipment the GPIB (general purpose interface bus) connection is hard to avoid if you want any kind of automation, but nobody likes wrangling with the bulky cables ...