09-05-2012, 02:23 AM
(09-04-2012, 08:05 PM)kandrathe Wrote:(09-04-2012, 08:23 AM)LavCat Wrote: Any thoughts or suggestions or advice?It looks to me like Agilent integrates with MATLAB from MathWorks. I use excel daily, but I've heard good things about MATLAB. I also use SAS and R (R is the GNU S) for statistical analysis, but I don't do instrument controls.
http://www.mathworks.com/products/connec...62540.html
From the spec sheet it appears to integrate with "MATLAB, Visual Studio®, Excel®, LabVIEW, Agilent VEE, or Agilent SystemVue PC application environment"
Matlab has always seemed like a fun toy, but it is almost fifteen times the cost of Excel. VS I've used (actually VC). I'd like to have VS, but it's too expensive for me. I've had a fair bit of experience with LabVIEW, but it's way out of my price range. VEE is about the same cost as Matlab. Don't even think about SystemVue! That leaves Excel.
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