GPIB-100

National Instruments GPIB-100 Bus Extender
Features

• Status LEDs
• Talker Only Function
• Up to 250 KB/s Transfer Rate

The National Instruments GPIB-100 Bus Extender is used in pairs with a special parallel data transmission cable to connect two separate GPIB or IEEE-488 bus systems in a functionally transparent manner.

Each GPIB-100A system extends the distance limit by 300 m and the loading limit to 30 devices including the extenders, without sacrificing speed or performance. These point-to-point extender systems can be connected in series for longer distances or in star patterns for additional loading. At short distances, the data transfer rate over the extension can exceed 250 kbytes/sec, degrading with distance only by the propagation delay along the cable. Furthermore, regardless of the distance, there is no speed degradation at all for transfers between devices on the same side of the extension.