tnt4882 (4)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/tnt4882.4freebsd".)

NAME

tnt4882 - National Instruments TNT4882A GPIB controller driver

SYNOPSIS

device tnt4882

DESCRIPTION

The ifconfig 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 driver supports National Instruments PCI GPIB cards using the TNT4882 bus interface chip. This chip emulates a NEC mcPD7210 controller IC as the main interface between the host computer and the instrument bus.

SEE ALSO

gpib(3), gpib(4)

HISTORY

The ifconfig driver was written by Poul-Henning Kamp, and first appeared in Fx 5.4 .

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by An J:org Wunsch .