Instrument Control Toolbox™ 2.6

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Working with the Instrument Control Toolbox
• Managing Your Instrument Control Session
• Developing and Modifying Instrument Drivers
• Supported Devices, Instruments, and Protocols

Introduction

The Instrument Control Toolbox lets you communicate with instruments, such as oscilloscopes, function generators, and analytical instruments, directly from MATLAB. With the toolbox, you can generate data in MATLAB to send out to an instrument, or read data into MATLAB for analysis and visualization.

The toolbox provides a consistent interface to all devices independent of hardware manufacturer, protocol, or driver. The toolbox supports IVI, VXIplug&play, and MATLAB instrument drivers. Support is also provided for GPIB, VISA, TCP/IP, and UDP communication protocols.

Key Features

• Instrument driver support for IVI, VXIplug&play, and MATLAB instrument drivers
• Support for GPIB and VISA standard protocols (GPIB, GPIB-VXI, VXI, USB, TCP/IP, serial)
• Support for networked instruments using the TCP/IP and UDP protocols
• Simulink blocks for sending and receiving live data between instruments and Simulink models
• Graphical user interface for identifying, configuring, and communicating with instruments
• Hardware availability, management, and configuration tools
• Instrument driver development and testing tools
• Functions for reading and writing binary and text (ASCII) data
• Synchronous and asynchronous (blocking and nonblocking) read-and-write operations
• Event handling for time-out, bytes read, data written, and other events
• Recording of data transferred to and from instruments

A typical test setup showing the Instrument Control Toolbox controlling and communicating with a power supply and oscilloscope. Resulting data is read into MATLAB for analysis and visualization. Click on image to see enlarged view.