Toolbox Components (Data Acquisition Toolbox)

Data Acquisition Toolbox

Toolbox Components

The Data Acquisition Toolbox consists of three distinct components: M-file functions, the data acquisition engine, and hardware driver adaptors. An understanding of these components and how they relate to each other, to MATLAB, and to your hardware will go a long way towards helping you understand how to use the toolbox more effectively. These components and relationships are shown below.

The diagram illustrates the order in which information flows from component to component. Information consists of data and property values. Property values allow you to control the behavior of your data acquisition application:

Information flows from MATLAB to the hardware, and from the hardware to MATLAB.
Data can be loaded into MATLAB from data acquisition hardware or from a disk file.

The Data Acquisition Toolbox components are described below.

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