External Interfaces |
Creating a Serial Port Object
You create a serial port object with the serial
function. serial
requires the name of the serial port connected to your device as an input argument. Additionally, you can configure property values during object creation. For example, to create a serial port object associated with the serial port COM1
The serial port object s
now exists in the MATLAB workspace. You can display the class of s
with the whos
command.
Once the serial port object is created, the properties listed below are automatically assigned values. These general purpose properties provide descriptive information about the serial port object based on the object type and the serial port.
Property Name |
Description |
Name |
Specify a descriptive name for the serial port object |
Port |
Indicate the platform-specific serial port name |
Type |
Indicate the object type |
You can display the values of these properties for s
with the get
function.
Configuring and Returning Properties | Configuring Properties During Object Creation |
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