NIDAQmx Serial Number

A utility (mex file) to extract the hardware serial number from a National Instruments DAQmx device

Description

This C based MEX function wraps the NIDAQmx ANSI C API function "DAQmxGetDevSerialNum" into a Matlab call to extract the hardware specific serial number from a piece of National Instruments Data Acquisition Hardware. The function is designed to help you easily tell specific hardware systems apart if they happen to use the same DAQ interface.

Usage: nidaq_serial('Dev1')

mex file creation instructions are included in the source header.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)
• Other requirements: NIDAQmx Drivers and NIDAQmx Hardware