{"id":239,"date":"2008-01-11T14:05:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/01\/11\/advanced-matlab-capturing-data-from-an-instrument\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:00:25","slug":"advanced-matlab-capturing-data-from-an-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/01\/11\/advanced-matlab-capturing-data-from-an-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced MATLAB: Capturing data from an instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"In an earlier post, I covered how to collect data from a data acquisition board. This post will do something similar for an oscilloscope. This time instead of using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/daq\/\">Data Acquisition Toolbox<\/a> we will be using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/instrument\/\">Instrument Control Toolbox<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIf you are connecting to hardware for capturing data and then bringing that data into MATLAB later for post test analysis, you should really consider bringing the data into MATLAB directly so you can do your analysis as the test is running.\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877438053001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\nOther videos have been gathered here:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nOther Advanced MATLAB posts have been gathered here:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/advanced-matlab\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/advanced-matlab\/<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/01\/11\/advanced-matlab-capturing-data-from-an-instrument\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/1718621c-4557-4361-b8b6-bcee5efa784b\/3656329c-d25f-4da7-bb17-0077c653c19a\/160x90\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">5:23<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>In an earlier post, I covered how to collect data from a data acquisition board. This post will do something similar for an oscilloscope. This time instead of using the Data Acquisition Toolbox we&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/01\/11\/advanced-matlab-capturing-data-from-an-instrument\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}