jeu. 10 mars 2016
Updating the Prologix USB-GPIB firmware on Linux
Prologix sell several low cost GPIB controllers. I have one their old deprecated dongle "GPIB-USB Controller 4.2" and had fun with it with my pygpibtoolkit project.
It's a very simple dongle consisting in an Atmel ATMega164P microcontroller and a FTDI FT245FL chip for the USB<->RS232 convertion.
![The Prologix GPIB-USB controller.](https://whatever.sdfa3.org/images/prologix/prologix_4.2_small.jpg)
Unfortunately, it's …