SPI Interface Support from Instrument Control Toolbox

Communicate with chips, circuit boards and sensors using MATLAB.

MATLAB supports SPI interface communication through Instrument Control Toolbox. SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) is a chip-to-chip interface that supports four- wire duplex communications. Instrument Control Toolbox SPI interface support lets you open connections with individual devices, such as EEPROM or on-board SPI sensors, on the SPI bus. You can then read and write data over the connections.

When characterizing a sensor or verifying the performance of a device or subsystem, you can configure chip settings using SPI while measuring outputs of the board or device with other test and measurement equipment. SPI interface support is available using SPI host adapters from Total Phase and National Instruments^®.

Supported Interface Hardware

Instrument Control Toolbox supports the SPI interface hardware shown below.

Manufacturer	Model	Minimum Toolbox Version
Total Phase	Aardvark TP240141	R2013b (version 3.4)
National Instruments	NI-USB-8451*	R2014b (version 3.6)
National Instruments	NI-USB-8452*	R2014b (version 3.6)

* SPI Stream and SCPI Scripting APIs are not supported

Platform Support

For Total Phase Aardvark, support is available on 64-bit Microsoft^® Windows^® and Linux^®. 64-bit Mac support is available only on releases R2012a - R2017b.

For National Instruments, support is available on 64-bit Microsoft Windows only.