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The Hardware Driver Adaptor
The hardware driver adaptor (or just adaptor) is the interface between the data acquisition engine and the hardware driver. The adaptor's main purpose is to pass information between MATLAB and your hardware device via the driver.
Hardware drivers are provided by your device vendor. For example, if you are acquiring data using a National Instruments E Series board, then the appropriate version of the NI-DAQ driver must be installed on your platform. Note that hardware drivers are not installed as part of the Data Acquisition Toolbox. The supported vendors and the adaptor names used by the toolbox are listed below.
Supported Vendors and Adaptor Names
Vendor
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Adaptor Name
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National Instruments
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nidaq
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ComputerBoards
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cbi
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Agilent Technologies
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hpe1432
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Windows sound cards
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winsound
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| Note
You can use the Data Acquisition Toolbox Adaptor Kit to interface
unsupported hardware devices to the toolbox. Refer to the MathWorks Web
site at http://www.mathworks.com/products/daq/ for more information
about the adaptor kit.
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As described in Examining Your Hardware Resources, you can list the supported adaptor names with the daqhwinfo function. For a list of vendor driver requirements and limitations, refer to "Data Acquisition Toolbox 2.0" in the Release Notes.
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