write

Write data to serial device

Syntax

write(serial,data,precision)

Description

write(serial,data,precision) writes data to the serial device.

The write function stops when it finishes writing the specified data to the device, or when the timeout period elapses.

Examples

Connect and Exchange Data with Serial Device

You can connect to a serial device from the MATLAB^® software, write data to the device, and read data from the device.

Create a connection from the MATLAB software to the BeagleBone Black hardware.

bbb = beaglebone

Enable serial port 1.

enableSerialPort(bbb,1)
bbb.AvailableSerialPorts

ans = 

    '/dev/ttyO1'

In '/dev/ttyO1', the 'O' is the capital letter O, not the number zero.

Show the location of the port 1 TX and RX pins, P9_24 (UART1_TXD) and P9_26 (UART1_RXD), on the GPIO header.

showPins(bbb)

The BeagleBone Black board uses +3.3 V. Do not connect BeagleBone Black hardware directly to devices that use higher voltages.

Connect the BeagleBone Black serial port to a +3.3 V serial device.

• To receive data, connect the P9_26 (UART1_RXD) pin on the BeagleBone Black hardware to the TxD pin on the serial device.

• To transmit data, connect the P9_24 (UART1_TXD) pin on the BeagleBone Black hardware to the RxD pin on the serial device.

• To provide power, connect one of the +3.3 V pins on the BeagleBone Black hardware to the VCC pin on the serial device.

• To ground the serial device, connect a ground pin (GND) on the BeagleBone Black hardware to the GND pin on the serial device.

Research the values the serial device requires for baud, data bits, parity, and stop bit.

Create a connection, serial, from the MATLAB software to the serial device.

serial = serialdev(bbb,'/dev/ttyO1',9600)

serial = 

  Serialdev with Properties:

    BaudRate: 9600
    DataBits: 8
      Parity: 'none'
    StopBits: 1
     Timeout: 10

Write a pair of values to a serial device that requires a specific data type.

write(serial,[10 12],'uint16')

Read a 100-element array of numbers from the serial port.

output = read(serial,100,'uint16')

Increase the timeout period of the serial port.

serial.Timeout = 20

serial = 

  Serialdev with Properties:

    BaudRate: 115200
    DataBits: 8
      Parity: 'none'
    StopBits: 1
     Timeout: 20

Input Arguments

serial — Connection to serial device

connection

Connection to a serial device, specified as a serialdev object.

Example: serial

data — Data to write to serial device

data

Data to write to the serial device, specified as a vector.

Example: [10 12]

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | char

precision — Data precision

'uint8' (default) | 'uint16' | 'uint32' | 'int8' | 'int16' | 'int32' | 'char' | 'single' | 'double'

Data precision, specified as a character vector. Optional.

Example: 'uint8'

Data Types: char

Version History

Introduced in R2015a