IB Tester

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► Hardware

▼ Accessories‎ (1 C, 10 P)

► Sync Box‎ (1 C, 2 P)

  MCE accessories

  2-slot Backplane

  Extender Card

  Fiber Cable

  IB Tester

  IB Tester Errata

  Linear Feed Card

  MCE Sync Buffer

  MDM Breakout Board

  Vicor Power Assembly

The Instrument Backplane Tester (IB Tester), also known as the Continuity Checker, is a GPIB card with the same footprint as all plug-in MCE cards and can be used to measure impedances of the cryostat interface and identify shorts and opens in the cryostat and/or the MCE. The test setup relies on running a Labview script.

• IB Tester Functional Description
• IB Tester Schematics
  • IB Tester Errata
• IB Tester User's Manual

Additional Software

Labview solution

• IB Tester Labview Scripts for Windows Platform [script1 script 2]
• IB Tester Templates [ZIP]

• LabView, Version 8, National Instruments

• For Windows Platform, Labview Report Generation Software, Version 1.1.1, National Instruments, here
• Tips on running the IB Tester

python solution

Eric S. from GSFC has rewritten the code in pyton:

"The excel channel MUX spreadsheet is exported to .txt. This uses a Prologix GPIB/USB interface rather than National Instruments. The Prologix communicates as a serial device over pyserial. National instruments will work in python, too, but as far as I can tell only through installing pyvisa, which takes more setup than pyserial. Feel free to use and extend!"

• gpib_chat.py
• mce_continuity.py
• test template

Additional Hardware

• GPIB to USB Adaptor:
  • National Instruments, GPIB-USB-HS OR GPIB-USB-B (discontinued)
  • Prologix GPIB/USB
• GPIB Cable: here
• Digital Multi-Meter: Agilent 34401A