Neurobit_BrainBay_Integration_Manual_1_2.pdf

BrainBay / Neurobit Integration page 1 BrainBay – Neurobit Integration User and Developer Manual Version 1.2 Chris Veigl, Sep. 6th, 2010 BrainBay / Neurobit Integration page 2 Table of contents Introduction 3 System Requirements 3 User Guide 4 The Neurobit Element 4 Changing the Device Setup 5 Connecting with the Device and Starting/Stopping Data Acquisition 6 Using Archive Files 7 Adjusting other relevant BrainBay parameters 7 Channel descriptions and ranges 8 Example Configuration Setups 9 Developer’s Guide 11 Development Environment 11 Relevant Source Files 12 Relevant Runtime files 12 Structure of the Neurobit integration 12 Known issues 14 Possible future improvements 14 History of changes in the software 14 BrainBay / Neurobit Integration page 3 Introduction This document describes the BrainBay support for the Neurobit Lite, Optima 2 and Optima 4 biosignal measurement devices. In dedicated sections, the usage and integration of the Neurobit devices will be outlined for both, users and developers. System Requirements The Software setup has been tested with the following operating systems: ? Windows XP professional and Home edition ? Windows 2000/NT ? Windows Vista ? Windows-7 professional and Home edition BrainBay has been reported to work on Linux using the Windows Emulator WINE, although this has not been verified in course of the Neurobit integration. A query of the operating system version has been added to BrainBay to address different presentation characteristics in Windows XP / Vista / 7 in terms of font scales and dialog window scaling. The minimum hardware requirements are: ? Pentium-2 Intel-compatible CPU ? 256MB RAM ? 30 MB free Harddisk- or non-volatile memory ? Fully compliant Bluetooth Adapter It has been revealed that not all commercially available Bluetooth-dongles support the whole BT- Stack or are not fully supported by Windows. Using a no-na