GPIB(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual GPIB(4)
NAME
gpib -- General-Purpose Instrument Bus (GPIB) driver
SYNOPSIS
Either of the pcii(4) or tnt4882(4) drivers use this driver as the backend.
DESCRIPTION
The gpib driver provides support for driving an IEEE-488 bus, also called IEC-625 (or just "IEC bus"), or HP-IB (Hewlett Packard Instrument
Bus), or GPIB (General Purpose Instrument Bus). The device can become either a listener, talker, controller, and in particular a master con-
troller on the bus.
FILES
/dev/gpibNib Main device node to access the driver.
/dev/gpibNl Listen-only entry to the driver. When opening, an instrument can send data to this device on the bus in an unaddressed mode,
for example hard-copy printer data.
SEE ALSO
gpib(3), pcii(4), tnt4882(4)
HISTORY
The gpib driver was written by Poul-Henning Kamp, and first appeared in FreeBSD 5.4.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Jorg Wunsch.
BSD
January 24, 2010 BSD
