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$529 for a GPIB card?
June 7, 2007

Raise your mouse if you'd pay $529 for a PCI Express GPIB interface card?

Apparently, that's what National Instruments, and now Agilent, think you'll pay. Agilent has released the 82351A PCIe-GPIB interface card. The company priced it's card equal to that of the NI-PCIe-GPIB card from National Instruments.

Would you pay that much for a GPIB card, even if it's PCI Express? Do you need PCI Express? The bandwidth is far more than you can get from GPIB, so is it necessary? I suppose it is if you don't have an available PCI slot.

What do you think of this price? Whose GPIB cards do you use, anyway, and why?

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Posted by Martin Rowe on June 7, 2007 | Comments (0)