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

Managing Your Instrument Control Session

Hardware Detection, Management, and Configuration

The Instrument Control Toolbox provides a set of utility functions that enable you to easily determine hardware availability for your test setup. Using the provided functions, the toolbox will scan for all available hardware connected to your system. The toolbox also lets you configure the IVI Configuration store information for your IVI drivers. You can add and remove hardware assets and logical names, and display available IVI driver information. You can access these management and configuration functions using M-file functions or TMTool.

Support for Synchronous and Asynchronous Modes

The Instrument Control Toolbox supports both synchronous and asynchronous read-and-write operations. A synchronous operation blocks access to the command line until the read or write is completed. An asynchronous operation lets you issue additional MATLAB commands while the read or write operation executes.

Event Handling

An event, which occurs at a particular time after a condition is met, may execute a specified function, known as a callback. The Instrument Control Toolbox lets you use events and callbacks to analyze data as it is received from the instrument or to display a message to the MATLAB workspace when all the data has been written to the instrument. The toolbox supports many event conditions, such as:

• Errors
• Timers
• Bytes available
• Output buffer empty

Data Recording

The Instrument Control Toolbox includes functions for recording your instrument control session to disk files. You can record:

• Data written to instruments
• Data read from instruments
• Event information

A script illustrating the basic steps of connecting to a device with the Instrument Control Toolbox: creation, configuration, and communication. A few lines of code let you acquire test data from an oscilloscope and plot the data in MATLAB. View the full demo. Click on image to see enlarged view.