Using MATLAB from Home

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Using MATLAB from Home

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Using MATLAB
from Home

Warning: 
You are welcome and even encouraged to work on the labs at home but you must
attend lab to receive your Instructor Verification signatures! 

There are several ways to use MATLAB
from home.  You may buy and install MATLAB
and the SP First toolbox (available on the CD-ROM that accompanies the course
text).  Or, you may run it remotely from the Unix workstations in the
CoC or your personal Linux systems. You can obtain the updated version of the
SP First toolbox here,
and instructions to install it are available there.

Running MATLAB at Home

If you want to work on the labs at home (something which we encourage) you
will first need to buy MATLAB. Then you
will need to install the SP First toolbox for MATLAB
on your computer.  The SP First toolbox is on the CD-ROM that comes with
the course text and instructions are on the CD-ROM or here. 
There are a few additional instructions here that may be useful.

  1. Versions of MATLAB: You can buy the
    Student version of M    ATLAB that comes at a comparatively lower price but with
    all features, either from the bookstore or online from The
    Mathworks     website.
  2. After having installed
    the SPFirst toolbox and updated the Matlab ‘path’, you can test your
    installation of SPFirst by typing :

               
>> help spfirst
           This will show
the demos that are installed as part of the SPFirst toolbox. Then typing the
name of any of the demos(ex. zdrill, cltidemo,etc.) should run the demo
without errors.

Running MATLAB Remotely

MATLAB may be run on the Unix
workstations in Klaus.   These are available for use via remote
access and there are two options available for running MATLAB on them.

  1. The first (and least
    desirable) is to just ssh to one of the machines (such as
    yamsrv[1,2,3 or 4].ece.gatech.edu) and run M    ATLAB in the terminal
    window.  This method has the disadvantage that you cannot view any
    plots.
  2. The best method is to
    have an X-server running at home so you can view plots.  There is
    currently no way to export sound.  If you are running Linux with X
    at home then your problem is solved.  If you are running Windows or
    Mac OS then you need to get an X-server. There are many available, and
    you can download from http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/ 
    or download and use the free Cygwin/X.
    Please refer to the FAQ in http://www.ece-help.gatech.edu
    page for more information on this. If you have any questions (after
    reading the documentation) please post them on the bulletin board.