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The standard is freely available [http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/USBTMC_1_006a.zip here].
The standard is freely available [http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/USBTMC_1_006a.zip here].


The sigrok project aims to support this standard through the [[libusbtmc]] library.
The sigrok project aims to support this standard through the [http://www.librevisa.org librevisa] library.


== Resources ==
== Resources ==
* [http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-products/test-measurement/4074421/USBTMC-Unwrapped EETimes: USBTMC Unwrapped]
* [http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-products/test-measurement/4074421/USBTMC-Unwrapped EETimes: USBTMC Unwrapped]

Revision as of 01:40, 13 January 2013

USBTMC (USB Test and Measurement Class) is a set of standard device class specifications, built on top of the USB standard. It is intended as a modern replacement of the venerable IEEE-488 (GPIB) standard, which is based on a large parallel connector. Two standards documents are specified:

  • USBTMC specification: specifies the protocol and descriptors that allow communications between devices and client software.
  • USB488 subclass specification: this specifies how to send and receive IEEE-488.1 and IEEE-488.2 commands over a USBTMC-based transport.

The standard is freely available here.

The sigrok project aims to support this standard through the librevisa library.

Resources