GPIB Interface with no driver

Hi all,

I am trying to get the keithley 706 Scanner to interface with matlab to run a testing project. I was wondering if anyone has any information on how to connect to a gpib device if there is no driver suppoerted, and how to integrate it into a small program.

[Walter Roberson]

(It looks like the User Manual for that device is currently available from https://download.tek.com/manual/706_901_01E.pdf )

[Walter Roberson]

It is an IEEE 488 device from a company that was purchased by Tektronix. Maybe the Tek VISA driver would work?

Answer 1

[Chris Georgiou]

Hi Jacob,

You will need to install a VISA library for MATLAB to interface with the instrument. I expect that most will work, though I would use an installer downloaded from either the Keysight or National Instruments websites.

If you have the instrument control toolbox, you can then use the functions visadevlist() to find the name of your instrument; visadev() to connect to it and assign this connection an object. Alternatively you can use the function gpib to make a connection, but this is going to be removed from MATLAB at some point in the future according to the documentation.

The rest depends on exactly what you want to do with the instrument.