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I've been spending a ton of time reading up on National Instruments products and their capabilities when used with LabVIEW. However, LabVIEW and National Instruments hardware is pretty much the only thing I've looked at, and I'm curious as to what is out there that competes with LabVIEW in an acquisition and control standpoint.
Hardware support is a big thing for me. National Instruments has a lot of different and high quality hardware. Plus there are some third-party manufacturers that write drivers for LabVIEW. MathWorks lists all the manufacturers who have written drivers to use this toolbox. But are manufactures still doing this or is or has the MATLAB toolbox lost popularity?
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Data Acquisition Toolbox provides apps and functions for configuring data acquisition hardware, reading data into MATLAB and Simulink, and writing data to DAQ analog and digital output channels. With Data Acquisition Toolbox, you can bring data directly into MATLAB from hardware for immediate analysis.
Image Acquisition Toolbox™ provides functions and blocks for connecting cameras to MATLAB® and Simulink®. It includes a MATLAB app that lets you interactively detect and configure hardware properties. You can then generate equivalent MATLAB code to automate your acquisition in future sessions.
Connect to data acquisition cards, devices, and modules The toolbox supports a variety of DAQ hardware, including USB, PCI, PCI Express®, PXI®, and PXI Express® devices, from National Instruments® and other vendors. The toolbox apps let you interactively configure and run a data acquisition session.
MATLAB DAQ is very good (I wish the open source MATLAB clones like Octave and FreeMat would have something similar :) ). We were using it with several acquisition boards without problems. It is very configurable, so it's quite easy to enable data reading from completely new hardware.
If that DAQ toolbox still doesn't do the job for you then there are other toolboxes, like Instrument Control Toolbox that offer other type of communication protocols too.
But are manufactures still doing this or is or has the MATLAB toolbox lost popularity?
I don't think MATLAB (or any of it's toolboxes) lost any popularity :).
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