2.2 Available Interfaces ¶

The ability to use each interface is dependent on OS and what libraries were available during the toolkit install.

To verify the available interfaces, run the following command in octave:

instrhwinfo

The function will return information on the supported interfaces that are available, similar to below:

    ToolboxVersion = 0.7.0
    ToolboxName = octave instrument control package
    SupportedInterfaces =
    {
      [1,1] = gpib
      [1,2] = i2c
      [1,3] = parallel
      [1,4] = serial
      [1,5] = serialport
      [1,6] = tcp
      [1,7] = tcpclient
      [1,8] = udp
      [1,9] = udpport
      [1,10] = usbtmc
      [1,11] = vxi11
    }

Most interfaces have two types of functions:

• somewhat compatible matlab functions such as fread, fwrite
• interface specific lower level functions such as udp_read, udp_write