MATLAB driver allows sophisticated analysis

Amplicon Liveline now has a MATLAB driver for its PowerDAQ familyof acquisition and control plug-in boards for the PCIbus.

MATLAB,the flagship product from The MathWorks, has long enjoyed areputation as the leading data-analysis and visualisation toolamong scientists and engineers involved in disciplines as diverseas control-systems design and signal processing.

To assist thoseusers who want to work with real-world data rather thansimulations, The MathWorks developed The Data AcquisitionToolbox, which interfaces with data acquisition and controlhardware from major suppliers around the world.

Each copy of thePowerDAQ Software Suite CD-ROM available from Amplicon comes withan installation utility that loads the required toolbox adapterfile onto the user's system.

Users can create sophisticatedapplications based on M-files, complete with graphical-userinterfaces, as well as conduct experiments directly from theMATLAB command line.

In addition, these I/O resources areavailable to users who elect to work with other tightlyintegrated add-ons such as the Control Systems Toolbox, theSystem Identification Toolbox, the Signal Processing Toolbox, andthe Wavelet Toolbox.

With this combination users can easilyautomate the process of collecting data, performing asophisticated analysis with the most advanced tools on themarket, and either display results in a user-friendly fashion oreven create a response signal and send it out through the sameI/O board.

Thus the Data Acquisition Toolbox 2 combines some ofthe most sophisticated analysis and visualisation capabilities onthe market with Amplicon's range of advanced analogue anddigital I/O hardware from UEI.

The PowerDAQ MATLAB driver workswith all of the PowerDAQ series boards available from Amplicon,and it comes at no charge on the PowerDAQ Software Suite CD-ROMthat ships with each card.

MATLAB and the Data AcquisitionToolbox 2 are available separately from The MathWorks.