The MathWorks Announces MATLAB Interface to Data Acquisition Hardware From Measurement Computing Corporation-- Formerly ComputerBoards, Inc.Business/Technology Editors NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2001 -- MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory) A programming language for technical computing from The MathWorks, Natick, MA (www.mathworks.com). Used for a wide variety of scientific and engineering calculations, especially for automatic control and signal processing, MATLAB runs on Windows, Mac and Data Acquisition Toolbox 2 Provides Integrated Environment for Test and Analysis -- The MathWorks, Inc. today announced expanded support for hardware from Measurement Computing Corporation (formerly ComputerBoards, Inc.), with the recent release of the MATLAB(R) Data Acquisition Toolbox 2. Users can now communicate with and control more than 120 different Measurement Computing data acquisition boards directly from MATLAB, the industry-standard technical computing environment. With the additional functionality in the latest version of the toolbox, The MathWorks now provides an interface to the industry's leading data acquisition hardware, including products from Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , National Instruments National Instruments, or NI (NASDAQ: NATI), is an American company with over 4,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries founded in 1976 by Dr. James Truchard, Bill Nowlin and Jeff Kodosky. , and Measurement Computing Corporation. "Being able to communicate with our high-quality, low-cost data acquisition hardware from MATLAB is a great benefit for our users," said Ed Evansen, President, Measurement Computing Corporation. "The new interface provides the best of both worlds for engineers and scientists - high-performance data acquisition hardware from Measurement Computing and powerful analysis and visualization capabilities of MATLAB." The combination of MATLAB and the Data Acquisition Toolbox allows users to work in a familiar, efficient technical computing environment and gives them control over all aspects of the data acquisition and analysis process. Since the initial release of the toolbox, The MathWorks has been increasing functionality to provide direct interfaces to the most popular hardware devices. In addition, version 2 of the toolbox provides a newly released Adaptor Kit that enables users to create custom interfaces to hardware from additional manufacturers. "Our goal is to provide a direct interface to a wide range of data acquisition hardware. Customer demand was especially strong for the added support of hardware from Measurement Computing," said Jane Price, Test and Measurement Product Manager at The MathWorks. Data Acquisition Toolbox 2 requires MATLAB 6 and is priced at $900. The toolbox is currently shipping for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95, 98, 2000 and NT. Quantity and education discounts are available. Additional information can be found on The MathWorks Web site at www.mathworks.com. About Measurement Computing Corporation Measurement Computing Corporation designs, manufactures and markets a full line of computer-based test and measurement hardware and software. These products include analog and digital I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output boards, serial and GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) An IEEE 488 standard parallel interface used for attaching sensors and programmable instruments to a computer. Using a 24-pin connector, up to 15 devices can be daisy chained together. HP's version is the HPIB. interfaces for the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. , cPCI, PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. and PC104 buses, as well as RS-232/485 serial interfaces. Measurement Computing also provides an extensive line of signal conditioning Imagine feeding the output of a temperature sensor, which is in millivolts, to an Analog-to-digital converter to be processed. Is it possible for the Analog-to-Digital converter to process such a minute voltage amplitude? The answer is probably no. products; a family of low-cost, rugged data loggers, a new expansion chassis series and a USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. based I/O. The privately owned company, founded in 1989, has more than 80 employees and markets its products worldwide through direct sales, a distribution network and the World Wide Web. Visit http://www.measurementcomputing.com for more information. About The MathWorks, Inc. The MathWorks develops technical computing software for engineers and scientists in industry and education. An extensive family of products, based on MATLAB and Simulink(R), provides high-productivity tools for solving challenging mathematical, computational, controls, and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and communications problems. The MathWorks products serve those in education and the following industries: automotive, aerospace, telecommunications and data communications, government, process industries, electronics, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, finance and economics, earth and planetary sciences, and instrumentation. Employing more than 700 people worldwide, The MathWorks was founded in 1984. Visit www.mathworks.com for more information. MATLAB and Simulink are registered trademarks of The MathWorks, Inc. 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