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IEEE-488 Tutorial

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Hewlett Packard designed the original bus in the 1960's. It was later accepted as a standard in 1978 by IEEE/ANSI as IEEE-488. At the time, it was revolutionary, allowing many convenient applications. An IEEE-488 bus can be configured as a physical star, in-line (linear) or a combination of both.

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8.1 IEEE-488 (IEC-625) PARALLEL INTERFACE STANDARD 8.1.1 Parallel Interfaces Parallel transfer of digital data (including measurement data) offers much higher data rates than serial data transfer.

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Selected Bibliography Adam, S., Microwave Theory and Applications, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969, pp. 490 502. Chambers, D. R., "A Noise Source for Noise Figure Measurements," Hewlett...