gpib tutorialGPIB Tutorial GPIB TUTORIAL BACKGROUND Instrumentation has always leveraged off widely used electronics technology to drive its innovation. The jeweled movement of the clock was first used to build analog meters. The variable capacitor, the variable resistor, and the vacuum tube from radios were used to pioneer the first electronic instruments. Display technology was leveraged off the television for use in oscilloscopes and analyzers. Today, cost-effective and powerful desktop and notebook computers are paving the way for new types of instruments --virtual instruments--. Virtual instruments are designed and built by the user to match specific needs by leveraging off the power and low cost of PCs and workstations. Software is the key to virtual instruments. Application software empowers th……