Realterm Serial Comms

Serial terminal to control and debug intruments.

Realterm is a serial/tcpip terminal program which can be controlled from MATLAB to do serial comms, for example to log data from instruments etc. It is excellent for debugging difficult, (eg binary, serial data) with any software.

http://realterm.sourceforge.net/realterm_from_matlab.html

Compared to the native MATLAB support its advantages are:
-Works w/ 5.3 onward
-fast, good for large data volumes
-runs in own process, totally asynchronous to ML
-you can see what is happening