MATLAB: What advanced serial capabilities does the Instrument Control Toolbox provide in addition to the functionality of MATLAB serial

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I am interfacing with my computer's serial port using the SERIAL function in MATLAB. I would like to know what advanced features are offered with the Instrument Control Toolbox.

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Besides the TMTOOL GUI for controlling the serial port, the Instrument Control Toolbox will provide several additional utility functions. These functions include:

QUERY - Write and read formatted data from instrument.

INSTRRESET - find all serial port objects, disconnect them and delete them.

FLUSHINPUT - Remove data from input buffer.

FLUSHOUTPUT - Remove data from output buffer.

OBJ2MFILE - Convert serial port object to MATLAB code.

PROPINFO - Return serial port object property information such as the values a property can be set to. This is useful for creating GUIs.

INSTRHELP - receive on-line property and method help.

INSTRHWINFO - Determine the available hardware - what serial ports are available.

TMTOOL - A GUI that displays resources accessible by the Instrument Control Toolbox, enabling you to configure and communicate with those resources.

The toolbox also adds GPIB and VISA support. The above functions work on these types of objects as well.

For more information on the Instrument Control Toolbox, visit the product web page at:

http://www.mathworks.com/products/instrument/

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Data can be collected from serial port into MATLAB by following one of the two steps:

1. Use the "serial" function in base MATLAB i.e., without any specialized toolbox. More information can be found in the documentation page linked below:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2017b/matlab/ref/serial.html

2. Use can make use of the Instrument control toolbox to collect data from serial ports.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/instrument/serial.html

Instrument Control Toolbox™ software provides additional serial port functionality. In addition to command-line access, this toolbox has a graphical tool called the Test & Measurement Tool, which allows you to communicate with, configure, and transfer data with your serial device without writing code. The Test & Measurement Tool generates MATLAB code for your serial device that you can later reuse to communicate with your device or to develop UI-based applications. The toolbox includes additional serial I/O utility functions that facilitate object creation and configuration, instrument communication, and so on. With the toolbox you can communicate with GPIB- or VISA-compatible instruments. More details can be found in the documentation pages linked below:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/introduction.html

MATLAB: MATLAB interface instrument driver

MDD files can be of multiple types. For example:

1. MATLAB Interface Instrument Driver 2. MATLAB VXIPnP Instrument Driver 3. MATLAB IVI-C Instrument Driver 4. MATLAB IVI-COM Instrument Driver

Depending on the MDD file type the second argument to the icdevice function changes.

For MATLAB Interface Instrument Driver the second argument to the icdevice function should be an interface object (and hence MDD is called "Interface" Instrument Driver).

However, if the MDD is any of the other three types, the second argument to the icdevice function should be the VISA Resource Address (In your case: USB0::2391::65519::CN03225604::0::INSTR)

If you created agn9320ni.mdd from a VXIPnP driver, then you need to pass in the VISA Resource Address as the second argument:

 d = icdevice('agn9320ni.mdd','USB0::2391::65519::CN03225604::0::INSTR');

More information on the MDD types can be found at the online help. Here's more information on how to use industry standard drivers.

Hope this helps,

-Ankit

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