JTEC VP of Engineering Julian Bell and Mechanical Engineer Gavin Williamson have developed and publicly released two open-source toolboxes for MATLAB/Simulink: one for LabJack T-series data acquisition interfaces, and one for Alicat mass flow and pressure controllers. Both toolboxes take advantage of Simulink’s drag‑and‑drop graphical programming environment to enable rapid integration with these hardware tools, making setting up data capture and system control dramatically faster, especially for non‑programmers.
Gavin and Julian originally developed the toolboxes to enable the JTEC engineering team to build and instrument data acquisition and flow/pressure control systems more efficiently – reducing manual coding burden and improving system reliability. These tools have become ubiquitous in the JTEC lab, and are used today on dozens of test fixtures and instruments. The toolboxes are now being released to the broader technical community so other engineers can benefit from Julian & Gavin’s work.
Both toolboxes are available through the Mathworks File Exchange, at slx_LJM and slx_ALICAT. Read more about them at the LabJack and Alicat websites
Disclaimer: slx_LJM and slx_ALICAT were developed independently by JTEC Energy engineers and are not an official product of Alicat Scientific, JTEC Energy or MATLAB/Simulink. Neither JTEC Energy nor Alicat Scientific nor MATLAB/ Simulink provide support for this software and are not responsible for its functionality, accuracy, or any outcomes resulting from its use. All risk associated with the use of these toolboxes—including data integrity, hardware control, and system performance rests solely with the user.