Hardware Support

NI™ manufactures arbitrary waveform and function generators that use the NI-FGEN driver. You can use MATLAB together with Instrument Control Toolbox as your single software environment to configure, control, and create waveforms with these instruments.

With MATLAB, you can analyze and visualize data for signal processing, statistical analysis, digital filtering, and curve fitting. You can also create graphical interfaces for collecting and analyzing your data and automating tests.

Consult the table for the list of NI-FGEN devices supported by the latest release of Instrument Control Toolbox.

Platform and Release Support

For releases R2022b and later, install the NI-FGEN Driver and the IVI® and VXIplug&play support package to add support for these devices.

For releases R2022a and earlier, you must install the NI-FGEN hardware support package to use these instruments. See the hardware support package system requirements table for current and prior version, release, and platform availability of the NI-FGEN hardware support package.

Supported Hardware

Bus Product Name NI Driver Type
 PCI PCI-5402 NI-FGEN
  PCI-5406 NI-FGEN
  PCI-5412 NI-FGEN
  PCI-5421 NI-FGEN
 PXI PXI-5402 NI-FGEN
  PXI-5404 NI-FGEN
  PXI-5412 NI-FGEN
  PXI-5421 NI-FGEN
  PXI-5422 NI-FGEN
  PXI-5441 NI-FGEN
 PXI-Express PXIe-5413 NI-FGEN
  PXIe-5423 NI-FGEN
  PXIe-5433 NI-FGEN
  PXIe-5442 NI-FGEN
  PXIe-5450 NI-FGEN
  PXIe-5451 NI-FGEN