A collection of classes to control lab instruments such as a pulse delay generator or a syringe pump within MATLAB
Add the parent directory that holds all @-folders to you local MATLAB path. This task can easily be done
with MATLAB's addpath and genpath functions. The devices itself must be installed as described by the
manufacturer, such that a connection is possible, e.g. via a serial port (see PHDUltra for an example),
a SDK (see PCO for an example), an ActiveX object (see ThorlabsRM for an example), a VISA object (see KeysightWG for an example) or similar.
A class design is chosen to create a (virtual) handle object within MATLAB that represents the actual
hardware. Have a look at each class implementation, i.e. by opening the help for a certain device, e.g. call
doc BNC575 do get information on the class to control the pulse delay generator BNC575. To create the object
call the class constructor (see the source code for options that can be passed to the constructor), a short example is given here for the BNC575:
% connect BNC575 available at COM port 19
mydev = BNC575('Port', 'COM19');
% enable channel 1 and start generating pulses
mydev.Channel(1).enable = true;
mydev.start;