An open source data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-31-usb-type-c-refresher,29933.html” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-31-usb-type-c-refresher,29933.html”>USB to GPIB adapter will soon reach version 3, bringing an integrated Ethernet port with PoE support to the design. Project originator Kai Gossner (Xyphro) recently contacted data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/29/open-source-hardware-usb-to-gpib-adapter-connects-legacy-gpib-ieee-488-instruments-to-modern-hosts/” data-url=”https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/29/open-source-hardware-usb-to-gpib-adapter-connects-legacy-gpib-ieee-488-instruments-to-modern-hosts/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>CNX Software about the impending milestone. Regular readers will have moderately fresh GPIB imprints on their brains, as we recently reported on this ancient (53-year-old) cable connectivity standard introduced by HP back in 1972 getting its data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/cables-connectors/53-years-later-bus-standard-launched-by-hp-in-1972-gets-stable-linux-driver-general-purpose-interface-bus-has-blistering-8-mb-s-of-bandwidth” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/cables-connectors/53-years-later-bus-standard-launched-by-hp-in-1972-gets-stable-linux-driver-general-purpose-interface-bus-has-blistering-8-mb-s-of-bandwidth”>first stable Linux driver.
XyphroLabs’s UsbGpib project can be found on data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://github.com/xyphro/UsbGpib” data-url=”https://github.com/xyphro/UsbGpib” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”…
