Data Acquisition Toolbox 2.17

Supported Hardware

MATLAB is an ideal data acquisition software environment. MATLAB supports data acquisition through the Data Acquisition Toolbox and provides support for multiple hardware manufacturers. This support provides you the flexibility to mix hardware from multiple manufacturers when creating MATLAB applications, or switch data acquisition hardware in the future while continuing to use MATLAB as your software environment.

Data Acquisition Toolbox also supports Simulink with blocks that enable you to incorporate live data or hardware configuration directly into Simulink models. You can verify and validate your model against live, measured data as part of Model-Based Design.

Select the manufacturer to see a full list of supported hardware

Data Acquisition Toolbox supports sound acquisition and sound generation using Microsoft Windows compatible sound cards. Data Acquisition Toolbox also supports the standard PC parallel port.

Note: Direct support for the parallel port (which is available only on Windows XP 32-bit) will not be provided with future releases of Data Acquisition Toolbox; instead, an adaptor will be available as a separate download. This warning has no immediate impact but is intended to advise you for future planning. Once this adaptor is available on MATLAB Central, The MathWorks will not be making updates to the adaptor.

Other MathWorks products provide additional options for communicating with external hardware devices from within MATLAB. MATLAB supports instruments and hardware that use GPIB (IEEE-488, HPIB), VISA, TCP/IP, UDP, and serial standards through the Instrument Control Toolbox. To communicate with cameras and frame grabbers, The MathWorks offers the Image Acquisition Toolbox. For real-time closed-loop control applications, the MathWorks offers products based on Simulink, such as xPC Target and Real-Time Windows Target.

For technical support, contact support directly.

Latest Updates

• On-line demo: Overview - Data Acquisition Toolbox
• Downloadable MATLAB NI-DAQmx example: Using MATLAB to communicate with National Instruments data acquisition devices (such as M-Series, PXI, and USB)
• Downloadable MATLAB sound example: Using MATLAB to communicate with sound cards
• Technical article in Sound and Vibration magazine: Using MATLAB for Vibration Measurements
• Technical article in MATLAB Digest: Deploying a Measurement Application with the MATLAB Compiler