Agilent / HP 37203A
HP IB Extender
Description
The Agilent 37203A HP-IB Extender has high-speed extension of the Interface Bus up to 1000 meters.
The 37203A HP-IB Extender overcomes the range limitations imposed by the cabling rules of the Interface Bus and provides high-speed (up to 50 k bytes/S), low-cost extension up to 1000 meters.
The 37203A's are used in pairs:
Each Extender serializes the normally parallel HP-IB information and transmits it to the other Extender where it is reconverted back to its original format.
The transmission medium can be a single low-cost coaxial cable for both directions of transmission.
The transparent HP-IB extension up to 1000 meters; HP-IB Transfer rate is up to 50 k bytes/s; and supports all HP-IB functions, which will include Pass Control and Parallel Poll, and will include error detection and correction protects HP-IB from transmission errors.
