Instrument Control Toolbox 2.9

Supported Hardware - GPIB

The MathWorks supports the GPIB protocol through the Instrument Control Toolbox.

MATLAB is an ideal software environment for communicating with instruments using GPIB, VISA, TCP/IP, or UDP. Instrument Control Toolbox enables MATLAB to control, configure, and transfer data with instrumentation. Once data is in MATLAB, you can analyze and visualize that data using interactive tools and command-line functions for data analysis tasks such as signal processing, statistical analysis, digital filtering, curve fitting, and nonlinear optimization. Data acquisition and analysis work can also be incorporated into GUI-based applications.

GPIB
MATLAB and Simulink support instrument communication via the GPIB (HPIB, IEEE-488) protocol when you use the Instrument Control Toolbox. You may want to download the MATLAB GPIB code example to get started using MATLAB for GPIB communication. A full list of driver limitations is available.

The table below lists the GPIB drivers supported by Instrument Control Toolbox.  Information on using Instrument Control Toolbox with VISA is also available.

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Supported Hardware
Manufacturer	Minimum Driver Requirements
Agilent Technologies	SICL version H.012.02.00
Capital Equipment Corporation (CEC)	CEC-488 version 5.08
CONTEC	API-GPLV version 1.33
ICS Electronics	ICS 488.2 version 2.0
IOTech	IOTech version 1.0
Keithley	Keithley-488 version 5.08
Measurement Computing Corp.	GPIB-32 version 2.12
National Instruments	NI-488 version 1.6

 

Information on using Instrument Control Toolbox with instruments from Agilent, Anritsu, LeCroy, Rohde & Schwarz, Tektronix, and other manufacturers is available.