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USB to GPIB Controller - UGPlus
UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller
UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller is a powerful, friendly and low cost GPIB controller. It is very easy for use. The software includes ASCII format command/data transfer functions and binary data/ file transfer functions between PC and GPIB equipment. We already compact everything you need for driving the equipment with GPIB interface. Therefore, you can eliminate the complicated VISA library. Due to current drive capability, it can drive five or less equipement only on the GPIB Bus.
UGPlus can be connected to IEEE488.2 and IEEE488.1 GPIB interface equipment.
UGPlus Software
The software for UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller is UGPlus Software, which includes three main elements:
1) One is the UGPlus control panel (UGPlus.exe), which is user friendly Graphic User Interface (GUI). User can control the UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller by just clicking the buttons and inputting GPIB command.
2) Second is Application Programmable Interface (API) - cdecl, which includes header file LQUGPlus_c.h, static library LQUGPlus_c.lib and dynamic -link library LQUGPlus_c.dll. Users can write their own programs to control UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller automatically in any programming languages(excep VB/VBA).
3) Third is Application Programmable Interface (API) - stdcall, which includes header file LQUGPlus_s.h, static library LQUGPlus_s.lib and dynamic -link library LQUGPlus_s.dll. Users can write their own programs to control UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller automatically in many programming languages(including VB/VBA). Even in Windows Office software, such as Excel.
UGPlus Software has been tested on Windows XP with SP3, Windows 7 with SP1, Windows Vista with SP1, Windows 7 with SP1, and Windows 10. For Windows 10 users, please downlaod dotNet Framework 3.5 from Microsoft Corporation website.
The API examples have been installed with the software together. The examples are built by Visual Studio 2005.
UGPlus has many more functions than UGSimple. Please see the table below for the comparison.
Table. Comparison of UG01, UGPlus and UGSimple USB to GPIB Controller
| Model | ASCII character length for command/data | Binary data transfer | Screen image Capture | GPIB script feature | File read and save | GPIB equipment drives |
| UGSimple | 60 bytes | No | No | No | No | <5 |
| UGPlus | 20000 bytes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | <5 |
| UG01 | 20000 bytes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 14 |
UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller User Manual
For details of the UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller and its Software, please refer to UGPlus USB to GPIB Controller User Manual