Port
Specify platform-specific serial port name
Description
You configure Port
to be the name of a
serial port on your platform. Port
specifies
the physical port associated with the object and the instrument.
When you create a serial port or VISA-serial object, Port
is
automatically assigned the port name specified for the serial
or visa
function.
You can configure Port
only when the object
is disconnected from the instrument. You disconnect an object with
the fclose
function. A disconnected
object has a Status
property value of closed
.
Characteristics
Usage | Serial port, VISA-serial |
Read only | While open |
Data type | Character vector |
Values
The value is determined when the instrument object is created.
Examples
Suppose you create a serial port and VISA-serial object associated with serial port COM1.
s = serial('COM1') vs = visa('ni','ASRL1::INSTR')
The Port
property values are given below.
[s vs].Port ans = 'COM1' 'ASRL1'