classdef MyInstrument < dynamicprops properties (SetAccess=protected, GetAccess=public) name=''; interface=''; address=''; %Logical for whether gui is enabled enable_gui=false; %Contains the GUI handles Gui; %Contains the device object. struct() is a dummy, as Device %needs to always support properties for consistency. Device=struct(); %Input parser for class constructor Parser; %Contains a list of the commands available for the instrument as %well as the default values and input requirements CommandList=struct(); %Parses commands using an inputParser object CommandParser; %Trace object for storing data Trace=MyTrace(); end properties (Constant=true) % Default parameters for VISA connection DEFAULT_INP_BUFF_SIZE = 1e7; % buffer size bytes DEFAULT_OUT_BUFF_SIZE = 1e7; % buffer size bytes DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 10; % Timeout in s DEFAULT_VISA_BRAND = 'ni'; end properties (Dependent=true) command_names; command_no; write_commands; read_commands; end events NewData; end methods (Access=private) function createParser(this) p=inputParser(); addRequired(p,'interface',@ischar); addRequired(p,'address',@ischar); addParameter(p,'name','',@ischar); addParameter(p,'gui','',@ischar); addParameter(p,'visa_brand',this.DEFAULT_VISA_BRAND,@ischar); this.Parser=p; end end methods (Access=public) function this=MyInstrument(interface, address, varargin) createParser(this); parse(this.Parser,interface,address,varargin{:}); %Loads parsed variables into class properties this.name=this.Parser.Results.name; this.interface=this.Parser.Results.interface; this.address=this.Parser.Results.address; this.enable_gui=~ismember('gui',this.Parser.UsingDefaults); %If a gui input is given, load the gui if this.enable_gui %Loads the gui from the input gui string this.Gui=guihandles(eval(this.Parser.Results.gui)); %Sets figure close function such that class will know when %figure is closed ind=structfun(@(x) isa(x,'matlab.ui.Figure'),... this.Gui); names=fieldnames(this.Gui); set(this.Gui.(names{ind}), 'CloseRequestFcn',... @(hObject,eventdata) closeFigure(this, hObject, ... eventdata)); end end function delete(this) %Removes close function from figure, prevents infinite loop if this.enable_gui ind=structfun(@(x) isa(x,'matlab.ui.Figure'),... this.Gui); names=fieldnames(this.Gui); set(this.Gui.(names{ind}), 'CloseRequestFcn',... @(hObject,eventdata) closeFigure(this, hObject, ... eventdata)); %Deletes the figure handles structfun(@(x) delete(x), this.Gui); %Removes the figure handle to prevent memory leaks this.Gui=[]; end %Closes the connection to the device closeDevice(this); %Deletes the device object delete(this.Device); clear('this.Device'); end %Clears data from trace to save memory. function clearData(this) this.Trace.x=[]; this.Trace.y=[]; end %Writes properties to device. Can take multiple inputs. With the %option all, the function writes default to all the %available writeable parameters. function writeProperty(this, varargin) %Parses the inputs using the CommandParser parse(this.CommandParser, varargin{:}); if this.CommandParser.Results.all % If the 'all' is true, write all the commands exec=this.write_commands; else % Check which commands were passed values ind_val=cellfun(@(x)... (~ismember(x, this.CommandParser.UsingDefaults)),... this.write_commands); exec=this.write_commands(ind_val); end for i=1:length(exec) %Creates the write command using the right string spec write_command=[this.CommandList.(exec{i}).command,... ' ',this.CommandList.(exec{i}).str_spec]; %Gets the value to write to the device this.(exec{i})=this.CommandParser.Results.(exec{i}); command=sprintf(write_command, this.(exec{i})); %Sends command to device fprintf(this.Device, command); end end % Wrapper for writeProperty that opens and closes the device function writePropertyHedged(this, varargin) this.openDevice(); try this.writeProperty(varargin{:}); catch warning('Error while writing the properties:'); disp(varargin); end this.readProperty('all'); this.closeDevice(); end function result=readProperty(this, varargin) result = struct(); read_all_flag = any(strcmp('all',varargin)); if read_all_flag % Read all the commands with read access exec=this.read_commands; else ind_r=ismember(varargin,this.read_commands); exec=varargin(ind_r); if any(~ind_r) % Issue warnings for commands not in the command_names warning('The following are not valid read commands:'); disp(varargin(~ind_r)); end end % Iterate over the commands list for i=1:length(exec) %Creates the correct read command read_command=[this.CommandList.(exec{i}).command,'?']; %Reads the property from the device and stores it in the %correct place res_str = query(this.Device,read_command); if isfield(this.CommandList.(exec{i}),'str_spec') result.(exec{i})=... sscanf(res_str,this.CommandList.(exec{i}).str_spec); else % If no format specifier is given (possible for a % read-only command), then return result as it is result.(exec{i})=res_str; end %Assign the values to the MyInstrument properties this.(exec{i})=result.(exec{i}); end end % Wrapper for readProperty that opens and closes the device function result = readPropertyHedged(this, varargin) this.openDevice(); try result = this.readProperty(varargin{:}); catch warning('Error while reading the properties:'); disp(varargin); end this.closeDevice(); end % Connects to the device function connectDevice(this, interface, address) try % visa brand, DEFAULT_VISA_BRAND if not specified vb = this.Parser.Results.visa_brand; switch lower(interface) case 'constructor' % in this case the 'address' is a command % (ObjectConstructorName) as returned by the % instrhwinfo this.Device=eval(address); case 'visa' this.Device=visa(vb, address); case 'tcpip' this.Device= visa(vb, sprintf(... 'TCPIP0::%s::inst0::INSTR',this.address)); case 'usb' this.Device=visa(vb, sprintf(... 'USB0::%s::INSTR',address)); otherwise warning('Device is not connected: unknown interface'); end configureDefaultVisa(this); catch warning('Device is not connected'); end end % Opens the device if it is not open function openDevice(this) if ~isopen(this) try fopen(this.Device); catch % try to find and close all the devices with the same % VISA resource name try instr_list=instrfind('RsrcName',this.Device.RsrcName); fclose(instr_list); fopen(this.Device); warning('Multiple instrument objects of address %s exist',... this.address); catch error('Could not open device') end end end end % Closes the connection to the device function closeDevice(this) if isopen(this) fclose(this.Device); end end function configureDefaultVisa(this) if isprop(this.Device,'OutputBufferSize') this.Device.OutputBufferSize = this.DEFAULT_OUT_BUFF_SIZE; end if isprop(this.Device,'InputBufferSize') this.Device.InputBufferSize = this.DEFAULT_INP_BUFF_SIZE; end if isprop(this.Device,'Timeout') this.Device.Timeout = this.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT; end end %Triggers event for acquired data function triggerNewData(this) notify(this,'NewData') end %Checks if the connection to the device is open function bool=isopen(this) try bool=strcmp(this.Device.Status, 'open'); catch warning('Cannot verify device Status property'); bool=false; end end %Adds a command to the CommandList function addCommand(this, tag, command, varargin) p=inputParser(); addRequired(p,'tag',@ischar); addRequired(p,'command',@ischar); addParameter(p,'default','placeholder'); addParameter(p,'classes',{},@iscell); addParameter(p,'attributes',{},@iscell); addParameter(p,'str_spec','%e',@ischar); % list of the values the variable can take, {} means no % restriction addParameter(p,'val_list',{},@iscell); addParameter(p,'access','rw',@ischar); parse(p,tag,command,varargin{:}); %Adds the command to be sent to the device this.CommandList.(tag).command=command; this.CommandList.(tag).access=p.Results.access; this.CommandList.(tag).write_flag=contains(p.Results.access,'w'); this.CommandList.(tag).read_flag=contains(p.Results.access,'r'); this.CommandList.(tag).default=p.Results.default; this.CommandList.(tag).val_list=p.Results.val_list; %Adds a default value and the attributes the inputs must have %and creates a new property in the class if this.CommandList.(tag).write_flag % Adds the string specifier to the list. if the format % specifier is not given explicitly, try to infer if ismember('str_spec', p.UsingDefaults) this.CommandList.(tag).str_spec=... formatSpecFromAttributes(this,p.Results.classes... ,p.Results.attributes); elseif strcmp(p.Results.str_spec,'%b') % b is a non-system specifier to represent the % logical type this.CommandList.(tag).str_spec='%i'; else this.CommandList.(tag).str_spec=p.Results.str_spec; end % Adds the attributes for the input to the command. If not % given explicitly, infer from the format specifier if ismember('classes',p.UsingDefaults) [this.CommandList.(tag).classes,... this.CommandList.(tag).attributes]=... AttributesFromFormatSpec(this, p.Results.str_spec); else this.CommandList.(tag).classes=p.Results.classes; this.CommandList.(tag).attributes=p.Results.attributes; end else % Read-only commands also have the classes and attributes % fields for consistensy, althrough they are never used this.CommandList.(tag).classes=p.Results.classes; this.CommandList.(tag).attributes=p.Results.attributes; end % Adds a property to the class corresponding to the tag if ~isprop(this,tag) addprop(this,tag); end this.(tag)=p.Results.default; end %Creates inputParser using the command list function createCommandParser(this) %Use input parser %Requires input of the appropriate class p=inputParser; p.StructExpand=0; %Flag for whether the command should initialize the device with %defaults addParameter(p, 'all',false,@islogical); for i=1:length(this.write_commands) %Adds optional inputs for each command, with the %appropriate default value from the command list and the %required attributes for the command input. tag=this.write_commands{i}; % Create validation function based on properties: % class, attributes and list of values if ~isempty(this.CommandList.(tag).val_list) v_func = @(x) any(cellfun(@(y) isequal(y, x),... this.CommandList.(tag).val_list)); else v_func = @(x) validateattributes(x,... this.CommandList.(tag).classes,... this.CommandList.(tag).attributes); end addParameter(p, tag,... this.CommandList.(tag).default, v_func); end this.CommandParser=p; end function str_spec=formatSpecFromAttributes(~,classes,attributes) if ismember('char',classes) str_spec='%s'; elseif ismember('logical',classes)||... (ismember('numeric',classes)&&... ismember('integer',attributes)) str_spec='%i'; else %assign default value, i.e. double str_spec='%e'; end end function [class,attribute]=AttributesFromFormatSpec(~, str_spec) % find index of the first letter after the % sign ind_p=strfind(str_spec,'%'); ind=ind_p+find(isletter(str_spec(ind_p:end)),1)-1; str_spec_letter=str_spec(ind); switch str_spec_letter case {'d','f','e','g'} class={'numeric'}; attribute={}; case 'i' class={'numeric'}; attribute={'integer'}; case 's' class={'char'}; attribute={}; case 'b' class={'logical'}; attribute={}; otherwise class={}; attribute={}; end end %Close figure callback simply calls delete function for class function closeFigure(this,~,~) delete(this); end end % Get functions methods function command_names=get.command_names(this) command_names=fieldnames(this.CommandList); end function write_commands=get.write_commands(this) ind_w=structfun(@(x) x.write_flag, this.CommandList); write_commands=this.command_names(ind_w); end function read_commands=get.read_commands(this) ind_r=structfun(@(x) x.read_flag, this.CommandList); read_commands=this.command_names(ind_r); end function command_no=get.command_no(this) command_no=length(this.command_names); end end end