I'm just in the process of trying to look at writing some GPIB software for my SR620, which is a fairly new arrival. I paid $950 for it, which I think was pretty good, considering it has the high stability time base.
Anyway, the first thing after setting the GPIB address to something that did not clash with other equipment I had, was to send it the usual *IDN? to hopefully get some response from it. Sure enough, it did respond with: drkirkby@buzzard:~/SR620-1/src$ ./tic 15 StanfordResearchSystems,SR620,03154,1.48 e I was a bit surprised by the letter "e" on another line, but anyway, that is what it did. According to the manual, "This string is in the format: StanfordResearchSystems, SR620, serial number, version number. Where "serial number" is the five digit serial number of the particular unit, and "version number" is the 3 digit firmware version number." So it looks like I have firmware 1.48. Does anyone know the latest firmware, whether it is possible to update the firmware, and if so how? Also, does anyone have a lit of the changes between firmware releases? If there are some major bugs fixed, I'd be more keen to update, but if the changes are quite minor, I am less inclined to bother. Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
