Data Acquisition Toolbox™

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Summary by Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Version 3.1 (R2012a) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 3.0 (R2011b) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.18 (R2011a) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.17 (R2010b) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.16 (R2010a) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.15 (R2009b) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.14 (R2009a) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.13 (R2008b) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.8.1 (R2006a) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.8 (R14SP3+) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.7 (R14SP3) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.6 (R14SP2) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Version 2.5.1 (R14SP1) Data Acquisition Toolbox

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Summary by Version
This table provides quick access to what’s new in each version. For
clarification, see “Using Release Notes” on page 3.

Version (Release) New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Latest Version Yes No Bug Reports
V3.1 (R2012a) Details Includes fixes
V3.0 (R2011b) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.18 (R2011a) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.17 (R2010b) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.16 (R2010a) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.15 (R2009b) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.14 (R2009a) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.13 (R2008b) Yes Yes Bug Reports
Details Summary Includes fixes
V2.12 (R2008a) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.11 (R2007b) Yes Yes Bug Reports
Details Summary Includes fixes
V2.10 (R2007a) Yes Yes Bug Reports
Details Summary Includes fixes
V2.9 (R2006b) Yes Yes Bug Reports
Details Summary Includes fixes
V2.8.1 (R2006a) No No Bug Reports
Includes fixes

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Version (Release) New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
V2.8 (R14SP3+) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.7 (R14SP3) No No Bug Reports
Includes fixes
V2.6 (R14SP2) Yes No Bug Reports
Details Includes fixes
V2.5.1 (R14SP1) No No Fixed bugs
V2.5 (R14) No No Fixed bugs

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Using Release Notes

Use release notes when upgrading to a newer version to learn about:

• New features
• Changes
• Potential impact on your existing files and practices

Review the release notes for other MathWorks® products required for this
product (for example, MATLAB® or Simulink®). Determine if enhancements,
bugs, or compatibility considerations in other products impact you.

If you are upgrading from a software version other than the most recent one,
review the current release notes and all interim versions. For example, when
you upgrade from V1.0 to V1.2, review the release notes for V1.1 and V1.2.

What Is in the Release Notes

New Features and Changes

• New functionality
• Changes to existing functionality

Version Compatibility Considerations

When a new feature or change introduces a reported incompatibility between

versions, the Compatibility Considerations subsection explains the
impact.

Compatibility issues reported after the product release appear under Bug
Reports at the MathWorks Web site. Bug fixes can sometimes result
in incompatibilities, so review the fixed bugs in Bug Reports for any
compatibility impact.

Fixed Bugs and Known Problems

MathWorks offers a user-searchable Bug Reports database so you can view

Bug Reports. The development team updates this database at release time

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and as more information becomes available. Bug Reports include provisions

for any known workarounds or file replacements. Information is available
for bugs existing in or fixed in Release 14SP2 or later. Information is not
available for all bugs in earlier releases.

Access Bug Reports using your MathWorks Account.

Documentation on the MathWorks Web Site

Related documentation is available on mathworks.com for the latest release
and for previous releases:

• Latest product documentation

• Archived documentation

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Version 3.1 (R2012a) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 3.1 (R2012a):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• “Session Synchronization Capability” on page 5

• “Support Added for Microphone Channels” on page 5
• “Support Added for IEPE Channels” on page 5
• “Support Added for New National Instruments CompactDAQ Chassis”
on page 6
• “Support Added for New National Instruments Devices” on page 6
• “Support Added for New Measurement Computing Devices” on page 7

Session Synchronization Capability

You can now synchronize operations in the session-based interface using
hardware triggers and scan clocks.

Support Added for Microphone Channels

You can now perform microphone measurements on National Instruments®
devices using the session-based interface.

Support Added for IEPE Channels

You can now perform generic IEPE measurements on National Instruments
devices using the session-based interface.

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Support Added for New National Instruments

CompactDAQ Chassis
Additional data acquisition support was added for the Ethernet chassis NI
cDAQ-9188 and these 1-Slot CompactDAQ chassis:

NI cDAQ-9171
NI cDAQ-9181
NI cDAQ-9191

Support Added for New National Instruments

Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added for these National
Instruments devices:

NI USB-6341 NI PCIe-6509
NI USB-6343 NI PXI-4472
NI USB-6351 NI PXI-6602
NI USB-6353 NI PXI-6608
NI USB-6356 NI PXI-6624
NI USB-6361 NI PXI-6723
NI USB-6363 NI PXI-6733
NI USB-6366 NI PXIe-4492
NI PCI-6601 NI PXIe-4497
NI PCI-6602 NI PXIe-4499
NI PCI-6713 NI WLS-9163

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Support Added for New Measurement Computing

Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added for USB-1608G,
USB-1608GX and USB-1608GX-2AO. You can use these Measurement
Computing™ devices in the legacy interface.

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Version 3.0 (R2011b) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 3.0 (R2011b):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• “Expanded Support for National Instruments Devices in the Session-Based

Interface” on page 8
• “Support Added for Bridge Measurements” on page 8
• “Support Added for RTD Channels” on page 8
• “Support Added for New Thermocouple Device” on page 9
• “Support Removed for Two National Instruments USB Devices” on page 9

Expanded Support for National Instruments Devices

in the Session-Based Interface
You can now use most supported National Instruments devices in the
session-based interface. See the Supported Hardware page for a list of
supported National Instruments devices.

Support Added for Bridge Measurements

You can now perform bridge measurements on National Instruments using
the session-based interface.

Support Added for RTD Channels

You can now perform RTD measurements on National Instruments using
the session-based interface.

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Support Added for New Thermocouple Device

You can now use the National Instruments NI USB-TC01 Thermocouple
measurement device with Data Acquisition Toolbox™, using the session-based
interface.

Support Removed for Two National Instruments USB

Devices
Support for NI USB-9263 and NI USB-9264 devices removed from the
legacy interface of Data Acquisition Toolbox. Use these devices with the
session-based interface.

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Version 2.18 (R2011a) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.18 (R2011a):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• “Support Added for Counters and Timers” on page 10

• “Support Added for IEPE Accelerometer Measurements” on page 10
• “Support Added for NI-DAQmx Devices” on page 10
• “New Hardware Support for National Instruments Chassis-Based Devices”
on page 11
• “64-Bit Windows Support” on page 11
• “NI-DAQmx Driver Requirement” on page 11

Support Added for Counters and Timers

You can now use counter and timer subsystems on National Instruments
CompactDAQ devices in Data Acquisition Toolbox.

Support Added for IEPE Accelerometer Measurements

You can now directly access IEPE accelerometer measurements on a National
Instruments CompactDAQ device.

Support Added for NI-DAQmx Devices

Additional data acquisition hardware support was added for NI-DAQmx
Version 9.2.1 devices as follows:

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NI PCIe-6509 NI USB-6351
NI PXIe-4492 NI USB-6353
NI PXIe-4497 NI USB-6356
NI PXIe-4499 NI USB-6361
NI USB-6341 NI USB-6363
NI USB-6343 NI USB-6366

Note You must use NI-DAQmx driver Version 9.1 or greater with Data
Acquisition Toolbox.

New Hardware Support for National Instruments

Chassis-Based Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added for NI 9222, and
NI 9223 devices.

64-Bit Windows Support

You can now use the session-based interface of Data Acquisition Toolbox
with a Windows® 64-bit system. The legacy interface does not support use
of the 64-bit system.

NI-DAQmx Driver Requirement

You must use Version 9.1 of the NI-DAQmx driver with Data Acquisition
Toolbox.

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Version 2.17 (R2010b) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.17 (R2010b):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• “Support Added for National Instruments CompactDAQ Devices” on page

12
• “Current and Thermocouple Measurements for CompactDAQ Devices”
on page 12
• “New Hardware Support” on page 13

Support Added for National Instruments

CompactDAQ Devices
You can use the session-based interface of the Data Acquisition Toolbox to
communicate with National Instruments CompactDAQ devices. Currently
the toolbox only supports devices with analog input and output channels. For
a complete list of supported CompactDAQ devices, visit the Data Acquisition
Toolbox Supported Hardware page at the MathWorks Web site.

Current and Thermocouple Measurements for

CompactDAQ Devices
You can use CompactDAQ devices that support current and thermocouple
measurement types with the session-based interface of the Data Acquisition
Toolbox.

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New Hardware Support

Data Acquisition Toolbox now supports the analog and digital I/O subsystems
in the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation
Suite (ELVIS) II+ devices.

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Version 2.16 (R2010a) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.16 (R2010a):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• “New Hardware Support for National Instruments (NI) X Series Devices”

on page 14
• “New Hardware Support for National Instruments (NI) Devices” on page 15
• “New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing Corporation (MCC)
Devices” on page 15
• “New Hardware Support for NI-ELVIS II Devices” on page 15

New Hardware Support for National Instruments

(NI) X Series Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added as follows:

NI PCIe-6320 NI PCIe-6363
NI PCIe-6321 NI PXIe-6341
NI PCIe-6323 NI PXIe-6356

NI PCIe-6341 NI PXIe-6358
NI PCIe-6343 NI PXIe-6361
NI PCIe-6351 NI PXIe-6363
NI PCIe-6353 NI PXIe-6366
NI PCIe-6361 NI PXIe-6368

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New Hardware Support for National Instruments

(NI) Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added as follows:

NI USB-6212 (BNC) NI ENET-9206

NI USB-6216 (BNC) NI ENET-9213
NI USB-6218 (BNC) NI WLS-9205
NI USB-9213 NI WLS-9205 (DSUB)
NI ENET-9205 NI WLS-9206
NI ENET-9205 (DSUB) NI WLS-9213

New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing

Corporation (MCC) Devices
Additional data acquisition support was added as follows:

MCC USB-1602HS MCC USB-1604HS-2AO

MCC USB-1602HS-2AO MCC PCIe-DIO24
MCC USB-1604HS MCC PCIe-DIO96H

New Hardware Support for NI-ELVIS II Devices

Data Acquisition Toolbox now supports the analog and digital I/O subsystems
of the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation
Suite (ELVIS) II devices.

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Version 2.15 (R2009b) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.15 (R2009b):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• “New Hardware Support for National Instruments (NI) Devices” on page 16

• “New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing Corporation (MCC)
Devices” on page 17
• “New Version of InstaCal Driver Required” on page 17
• “Change in daqmem Output” on page 17

New Hardware Support for National Instruments

(NI) Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added as follows:

NI USB-4431 NI ENET-9421 (DSUB)

NI USB-4432 NI ENET-9472
NI USB-9263 NI ENET-9472 (DSUB)
NI USB-9264 NI ENET-9481
NI PCIe-6535 NI WLS-9421

NI PXIe-6535 NI WLS-9421 (DSUB)

NI PXIe-6536 NI WLS-9472

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NI PXIe-6537 NI WLS-9472
NI ENET-9421 NI WLS-9481

Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing

Corporation (MCC) Devices
Additional data acquisition support was added as follows:

MCC USB-3101FS MCC USB-1208HS-2AO

MCC USB-1208HS MCC USB-1208HS-4AO

Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

New Version of InstaCal Driver Required

To use MCC devices with the Data Acquisition Toolbox software, install MCC
InstaCal driver Version 5.89 or later.

Change in daqmem Output

Starting with Data Acquisition Toolbox Version 2.15, the daqmem function
returns a MATLAB object instead of a structure. Although the properties of
the object are identical to the fields within the structure, executing isstruct
will return false.

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Version 2.14 (R2009a) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.14 (R2009a):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced is this version are:

• “New Hardware Support for National Instruments (NI) Devices” on page 18

• “New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing Corporation (MCC)
Devices” on page 19

New Hardware Support for National Instruments

(NI) Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added as follows:

NI USB-6259 (USB) NI ENET-9219 (ENET)

NI USB-9234 (USB) NI ENET-9234 (ENET)

NI PCI-6521 (PCI) NI ENET-9237 (ENET)

NI PXI-6521 (PXI) NI WLS-9211 (WLS)
NI PXIe-4496 (PXIe) NI WLS-9215 (WLS)
NI PXIe-4498 (PXIe) NI WLS-9234 (WLS)

NI ENET-9211 (ENET) NI WLS-9219 (WLS)

NI PXIe-6124 (PXIe) NI WLS-9237 (WLS)

NI ENET-9215 (ENET)

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Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing

Corporation (MCC) Devices
Additional data acquisition support added for the MCC USB-DIO24H/37
device.

Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

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Version 2.13 (R2008b) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.13 (R2008b):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes Yes—Details labeled Bug Reports
Details below as Compatibility Includes fixes
Considerations
below. See also
Summary.

New features and changes introduced is this version are:

• “Keithley® and VXI Technology Adaptors Deprecated” on page 20

• “Warning Added for Future Deprecation of National Instruments
Traditional NI-DAQ Adaptor” on page 21
• “Warning Added for Future Deprecation of Parallel Port Adaptors” on
page 21
• “Data Acquisition Toolbox RTSI Bus Support” on page 21
• “New Hardware Support for National Instruments (NI) Devices” on page 21
• “New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing Corporation (MCC)
Devices” on page 22
• “Expanded Data Acquisition Toolbox Demos” on page 22

Keithley® and VXI Technology Adaptors Deprecated

Keithley® and VXI Technology® adaptors will no longer work in the current
release of the Data Acquisition Toolbox.

Compatibility Considerations
The change for this toolbox release is that you cannot create a Data
Acquisition Toolbox object for the 'keithley' or 'hp1432' adaptors. You can

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get unsupported adaptors from the Data Acquisition Adaptors page in the
File Exchange area on MATLAB Central.

Warning Added for Future Deprecation of National

Instruments Traditional NI-DAQ Adaptor
You will see a warning when you create a Data Acquisition Toolbox object for
devices that use the Traditional NI-DAQ driver. Support for devices using the
Traditional NI-DAQ driver will be removed in a future release.

Notes NI-DAQmx drivers will continue to be supported. This change only

affects Traditional NI-DAQ devices.

For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the

Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

Warning Added for Future Deprecation of Parallel

Port Adaptors
You will see a warning when you create a Data Acquisition Toolbox object
for the 'parallel' device. The support for the 'parallel' device will be
removed in a future release.

Data Acquisition Toolbox RTSI Bus Support

New support for synchronizing multiple National Instruments devices using
a National Instruments RTSI bus.

New Hardware Support for National Instruments

(NI) Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added as follows:

NI PXI-6529 (PXI) NI USB-9219 (USB)

NI USB-6212 (USB) NI USB-9229 (USB)

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NI USB-6216 (USB) NI USB-9229 (BNC) (USB)

NI USB-6281 (USB) NI USB-9239 (USB)

NI USB-6281 (Mass Termination) (USB) NI USB-9239 (BNC) (USB)

NI USB-6289 (USB) NI SCXI-1112 (SCXI)
NI USB-6289 (Mass Termination) (USB) NI SCXI-1122 (SCXI)
NI USB-6509 (USB)

Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing

Corporation (MCC) Devices
Additional data acquisition support was added for the MCC USB-1616HS-BNC
device.

Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

Expanded Data Acquisition Toolbox Demos

Data Acquisition Toolbox product now has a new demo for synchronizing
analog input and output using a RTSI bus.

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Version 2.12 (R2008a) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.12 (R2008a):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced is this version are:

• “Data Acquisition Toolbox Block Library” on page 23

• “New Hardware Support for National Instruments (NI) Devices” on page 23
• “New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing Corporation (MCC)
Devices” on page 24

Data Acquisition Toolbox Block Library

There are two new Simulink blocks that can acquire or output a single point
of analog data in a Simulink model.

• Analog Input (Single Sample) — Acquire a single sample from multiple

analog channels of a data acquisition device.
• Analog Output (Single Sample) — Output a single sample to multiple
analog channels of a data acquisition device.

New Hardware Support for National Instruments

(NI) Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added, as follows:

NI PXI-4496 (PXI) NI SCXI-1102b (SCXI)

NI PXI-4498 (PXI) NI SCXI-1102c (SCXI)

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NI USB-6225 (USB) NI SCXI-1104 (SCXI)

NI USB-6229 (USB) NI SCXI-1104c (SCXI)
NI USB-6251 (USB) NI SCXI-1120 (SCXI)
NI USB-6255 (USB) NISCXI-1120d (SCXI)
NI USB-6259 (USB) NI SCXI-1125 (SCXI)

Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

New Hardware Support for Measurement Computing

Corporation (MCC) Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added, as follows:

MCC USB-1608HS MCC USB-1616HS-2

MCC USB-1608HS-2AO MCC USB-1616HS-4

MCC USB-1616HS MCC AI-EXP48

Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

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Version 2.11 (R2007b) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.11 (R2007b):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes Yes—Details labeled Bug Reports
Details below as Compatibility Includes fixes
Considerations,
below. See also
Summary.

New features and changes introduced is this version are:

• “New Hardware Support for National Instruments (NI) Devices” on page 25

• “Enhanced Performance of getsample and putsample Functions” on page 26
• “StandardSampleRates Property Defaults Changed” on page 26
• “Upgrading from an Earlier Release” on page 26
• “Three Analog Properties Hidden” on page 26

New Hardware Support for National Instruments

(NI) Devices
Additional data acquisition hardware support was added, as follows:

NI USB-6221 (USB) NI PCI-6601 (PCI)

NI USB-6229 (USB) NI PCI-6602 (PCI)

NI USB-9211A (USB) NI PXI-6255 (PXI)

NI PCIe-6536 (PCI Express®) NI PXI-6602 (PXI)
NI PCIe-6537 (PCI Express) NI PXI-6608 (PXI)
NI PCI-6255 (PCI)

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Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

Enhanced Performance of getsample and putsample

Functions
The getsample and putsample functions perform faster when acquiring and
sending a single data sample using NI-DAQmx driver software.

StandardSampleRates Property Defaults Changed

The default value of the StandardSampleRates property is changed from
“on” to “off”.

Upgrading from an Earlier Release

This section describes the issues involved in upgrading from Data Acquisition
Toolbox Version 2.10 (Release 2007a) or earlier.

Obsolete daq Functions

Two functions with daq in their name are obsolete in Version 2.11 and are
replaced with other functions. The toolbox will no longer support these
obsolete functions and will display an error if you try to use them. If your
code still uses these obsolete function names, you must update it to use the
new function names.

Obsolete Function Name New Function Name

daqaction daqcallback
daqpropedit inspect

Three Analog Properties Hidden

The following three properties of analog input objects in the NI-DAQmx
adaptor are now hidden:

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• DriveAISenseToGround
• NumMuxBoards
• TransferMode

These properties are used only by Traditional NI-DAQ devices. If you have
code that explicitly uses these properties it will continue to work, but code
that puts the object’s properties in a structure will no longer find these three
properties. Tab completion for these three properties will no longer work.

Compatibility Considerations
In this release of the toolbox, the three properties DriveAISenseToGround,
NumMuxBoards, and TransferMode are hidden for NI-DAQmx boards. You
can, however, explicitly access these properties, but changing their values will
not have any effect on NI-DAQmx boards.

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Version 2.10 (R2007a) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.10 (R2007a):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes Yes—Details labeled Bug Reports
Details below as Compatibility Includes fixes
Considerations,
below. See also
Summary.

New features and changes introduced is this version are:

• “New Hardware Support” on page 28

• “Time Series Support” on page 29
• “Warning Added for Future Deprecation of Keithley and VXI Technology
Adaptors” on page 29

New Hardware Support

Additional data acquisition hardware support was added, as follows:

• Support added for additional National Instruments (NI) data

acquisition devices — NI USB-6210 (USB); NI USB-6211 (USB); NI
USB-6215 (USB); NI USB-6218 (USB); NI PCI-6230 (PCI); NI PCI-6232
(PCI); and NI PCI-6233 (PCI).
• Support added for additional Measurement Computing
Corporation (MCC) data acquisition devices — USB-3110; USB-3112;
USB-3114; USB-3102; USB-3104; USB-3106; USB-3101; USB-3103;
USB-3105; USB-2523; USB-2527; USB-2533; USB-2537; PCI-2511;
PCI-2513; PCI-2515; and PCI-2517.

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Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

Time Series Support

Time series support has been added to the toolbox to enable easier analysis
and visualization of time domain data in the MATLAB. This functionality
extends three Data Acquisition Toolbox functions, daqread, getdata, and
putdata, to support the MATLAB timeseries and tscollection objects.

Warning Added for Future Deprecation of Keithley

and VXI Technology Adaptors
Keithley and VXI Technology adaptors will be deprecated in a future version
of the toolbox. If you create a Data Acquisition Toolbox object for the
'keithley' or 'hp1432' adaptors, you will receive a warning.

Compatibility Considerations
The change for this toolbox release is that you will see a warning if you create
a Data Acquisition Toolbox object for the 'keithley' or 'hp1432' adaptors.
The warning is being introduced now, but the adaptors will continue to be
supported and will be removed in a future release.

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Version 2.9 (R2006b) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.9 (R2006b):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes Yes—Details labeled Bug Reports
Details below as Compatibility Includes fixes
Considerations,
below. See also
Summary.

New features and changes introduced is this version are:

• “Data Acquisition Toolbox Block Library” on page 30

• “New Hardware Support” on page 30
• “Corrected Spelling of InputType Value Pseudodifferential” on page 31

Data Acquisition Toolbox Block Library

You can use these blocks to acquire analog or digital data in a Simulink
model, or to output analog or digital data from the model to a hardware
device. The toolbox block library contains four blocks:

• Analog Input — Acquire data from multiple channels of an analog data

acquisition device.
• Analog Output — Output data to multiple channels of an analog data
acquisition device.
• Digital Input — Acquire the latest set of values from multiple lines of a
digital data acquisition device.
• Digital Output — Output data to multiple lines of a digital data
acquisition device.

New Hardware Support

Additional data acquisition hardware support was added, as follows:

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• Support added for four additional National Instruments (NI) data

acquisition devices — NI USB-6251 (USB); NI USB-6259 (USB); NI
PCIe-6251 (PCI Express); and NI PCIe-6259 (PCI Express).
• Support added for an additional Measurement Computing
Corporation (MCC) data acquisition device — MCC USB-1408FS
(USB).

Note For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the
Data Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site
www.mathworks.com/products/daq.

Corrected Spelling of InputType Value

Pseudodifferential
Analog input objects have a number of acceptable values for their InputType
property: NonReferencedSingleEnded, SingleEnded, Differential, and
Pseudodifferential. In the initial release of the NI-DAQmx adaptor in
Version 2.8 (R14SP3+), Pseudodifferential was incorrectly spelled as
Psuedodifferential. The toolbox change now correctly spells this input
type as Pseudodifferential.

Compatibility Considerations
This change is backward compatible; users that saved analog input objects
with the InputType property set to the misspelled Psuedodifferential will
be able to load the object in R2006b and later with no changes on their part.
The compatibility issue is that if you save an analog input object with this
InputType value in R2006b, you will not be able to share it with users of
R2006a and earlier versions. Analog input objects that have their InputType
set to Pseudodifferential will be unusable in R2006a and previous releases.
Analog input objects that use the other InputType values are unaffected.

Obsolescence Process. If you use the set function to assign the incorrectly
spelled value Psuedodifferential, in Version 2.9 (R2006b), you will get a
warning and it will be changed to the correct spelling. In the following release
of the toolbox, you will get an error advising you to use the new spelling. The
get function will always return the correctly spelled value.

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Version 2.8.1 (R2006a) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.8.1 (R2006a):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
No No Bug Reports
Includes fixes

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Version 2.8 (R14SP3+) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.8 (R14SP3+):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• “NI-DAQmx Support” on page 33

• “Upgrading from an Earlier Release” on page 34

NI-DAQmx Support
The Data Acquisition Toolboxtm_dataacquisitiontoolbox; software supports
National Instruments hardware that uses the NI-DAQmx software interface.

The adaptor name in the Data Acquisition Toolbox software is nidaq, which
can be used in all syntax requiring the adaptor name.

To display your installed hardware that can be accessed using the NI-DAQmx
adaptor, type

daqhwinfo('nidaq')

daqhwinfo returns information about the hardware that is installed, and the
IDs that the National Instruments Measurement & Automation Explorer
has assigned to these devices. Typically, these IDs start with the letters Dev
followed by a number.

The toolbox supports both Traditional NI-DAQ and NI-DAQmx. For

information about choosing which driver to use, see in “Troubleshooting Your
Hardware” of the Data Acquisition Toolbox User’s Guide.

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Upgrading from an Earlier Release

This section details the issues to be aware of when upgrading from Data
Acquisition Toolbox Version 2.7 to Version 2.8.

DriveAISenseToGround Property
The DriveAISenseToGround property is ignored by National Instruments
devices. For information on configuring AI referencing properties, see the
reference page for the InputType property.

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Version 2.7 (R14SP3) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.7 (R14SP3):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
No No Bug Reports
Includes fixes

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Version 2.6 (R14SP2) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.6 (R14SP2):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
Yes No Bug Reports
Details below Includes fixes

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• “New Functions: islogging, isrunning, and issending” on page 36

• “Using PFI or RTSI Channels for Triggers and Clocks” on page 37
• “peekdata Allows Type Parameter” on page 37
• “Property Inspector Replaces daqpropedit” on page 37
• “waittilstop Function Renamed wait” on page 38
• “Upgrading from an Earlier Release” on page 38

New Functions: islogging, isrunning, and issending

Three new functions are provided to query the status of data acquisition
device objects.

Function Purpose
islogging Determine whether analog input object is
logging data.
isrunning Determine whether device object is running.
issending Determine whether analog output object is
sending data.

For further details on each function, see its reference page in the
documentation. Use of these functions is recommended over directly accessing
the Running, Logging, and Sending properties.

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Using PFI or RTSI Channels for Triggers and Clocks

Three new properties for National Instruments cards are:

• HwDigitalTriggerSource
• ExternalSampleClockSource
• ExternalScanClockSource

These properties allow you to select a PFI or RTSI channel as the source for a
hardware digital trigger, external sample clock, or external scan clock. See
the reference pages for these properties to read about valid property settings
and when they are in effect.

peekdata Allows Type Parameter

The peekdata function now accepts a third parameter specifying data format.
When the data format is specified as native, data is returned in the native
format of the data acquisition device, similar to the behavior of the getdata
function. For detailed information on peekdata, type

help analoginput/peekdata

Property Inspector Replaces daqpropedit

The Property Inspector replaces the Data Acquisition Toolbox Property Editor
(daqpropedit) graphical user interface.

You open the Property Inspector for object obj with the inspect function.

inspect(obj)

For more information about the inspect function, type

help daqdevice/inspect

Typing daqpropedit at the command line now opens the Property Inspector.

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waittilstop Function Renamed wait

The waittilstop function has been renamed wait. All functionality remains
the same. waittilstop still works in Version 2.6, but may be removed from a
future version of the toolbox. For more information on wait, type

help daqdevice/wait

Upgrading from an Earlier Release

This section describes the issues involved in upgrading from Data Acquisition
Toolbox Version 2.5.1 (Release 14SP1), 2.5 (Release 14), or 2.2 (Release
13SP1).

Obsolete Action Properties

All object properties with Action in their name are obsolete in Version 2.6.
These have been replaced by properties with the same name using Fcn instead
of Action. These Fcn properties have existed in several recent versions of
the Data Acquisition Toolbox software. The toolbox supported the Action
properties during these transition releases, but they are no longer supported.
If your code still uses these obsolete property names, you must update it to
use the new property names.

Obsolete Property Name New Property Name

DataMissedAction DataMissedFcn
InputOverRangeAction InputOverRangeFcn
RuntimeErrorAction RuntimeErrorFcn
SamplesAcquiredAction SamplesAcquiredFcn
SamplesAcquiredActionCount SamplesAcquiredFcnCount
SamplesOutputAction SamplesOutputFcn
SamplesOutputActionCount SamplesOutputFcnCount
StartAction StartFcn
StopAction StopFcn
TimerAction TimerFcn
TriggerAction TriggerFcn

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Deleting a Running Object

In past releases, you could not delete a running object. Now in Version 2.6,
when you attempt to delete a running object, the toolbox stops the object,
issues a warning, then deletes the object.

ai.SamplesPerTrigger = Inf
start(ai);
delete(ai)
Warning: Object stopped before deleting.

Return Format of daqfind

In past versions, the daqfind function returned a 1-by-1 cell array of N-by-1
objects. Now in Version 2.6, this function returns an N-by-1 cell array of
objects.

ai1 = analoginput('winsound');
ai2 = analoginput('winsound');
objs = daqfind('Type','Analog Input')
objs =
[1x1 analoginput]
[1x1 analoginput]

peekdata and getdata Number of Samples

The functions peekdata and getdata no longer accept Inf as an argument
for specifying the number of samples. In the past, specifying Inf for the
number of samples was accepted, and returned zero samples. Now specifying
Inf samples causes an error.

data = getdata(ai, Inf)

??? The number of samples requested must be less than Inf.

waittilstop Function Renamed wait

The waittilstop function has been renamed wait. All functionality remains
the same. waittilstop still works in Version 2.6, but may be removed from a
future version of the toolbox. For more information on wait, type

help daqdevice/wait

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daqpropedit Replaced by inspect

The Data Acquisition Toolboxtm_dataacquisitiontoolbox; Property Editor
(daqpropedit) graphical user interface has been replaced by the Property
Inspector.

You open the Property Inspector for object obj with the inspect function.

inspect(obj)

For more information about the inspect function, type

help daqdevice/inspect

Typing daqpropedit at the command line now opens the Property Inspector.

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Version 2.5.1 (R14SP1) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.5.1 (R14SP1):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
No No Fixed bugs

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Version 2.5 (R14) Data Acquisition Toolbox Software

This table summarizes what’s new in Version 2.5 (R14):

New Features and Version Fixed Bugs and

Changes Compatibility Known Problems
Considerations
No No Fixed bugs

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Compatibility Summary for Data Acquisition Toolbox

Software
This table summarizes new features and changes that might cause
incompatibilities when you upgrade from an earlier version, or when you
use files on multiple versions. Details are provided in the description of the
new feature or change.

Version (Release) New Features and Changes with Version

Compatibility Impact
Latest Release None
V3.1 (R2012a)
V3.0 (R2011b) None
V2.18 (R2011a) None
V2.17 (R2010b) None
V2.16 (R2010a) None
V2.15 (R2009b) None
V2.14 (R2009a) None
V2.13 (R2008b) See the Compatibility Considerations
subheading for these changes:

• “Keithley® and VXI Technology Adaptors

Deprecated” on page 20
• “Warning Added for Future Deprecation of
National Instruments Traditional NI-DAQ
Adaptor” on page 21
• “Warning Added for Future Deprecation of
Parallel Port Adaptors” on page 21
V2.12 (R2008a) None

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Version (Release) New Features and Changes with Version

Compatibility Impact
V2.11 (R2007b) See the Compatibility Considerations
subheading for this change:

• “Three Analog Properties Hidden” on page

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V2.10 (R2007a) See the Compatibility Considerations
subheading for this change:

• “Warning Added for Future Deprecation of

Keithley and VXI Technology Adaptors” on
page 29
V2.9 See the Compatibility Considerations
subheading for this change:

• “Corrected Spelling of InputType Value

Pseudodifferential” on page 31
V2.8. None
V2.8 (R14SP3+) None
V2.7 (R14SP3) None
V2.6 (R14SP2) None
V2.5.1 (R14SP1) None
V2.5 (R14) None

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