Data acquisition software is available for use on a wide variety of computing platforms, including stand-alone Windows applications, LabVIEW applications, MATLAB-SIMULINK applications and specialized applications for Pocket PCs. Capabilities range from simple recording with on-line monitoring of incoming raw data to real-time analysis with feedback to control a device or display. Each data acquisition software option has a limited range of devices supported, so be sure to consider this in reviewing your software options.
The ActiveTwo system is delivered with free open-source acquisition software called ActiView. ActiView is a complete acquisition program designed to display all ActiveTwo channels on screen and save all the data to a disk in .BDF format. The layout is designed to give the user a quick and simple check of the quality of the data. ActiView can be used for acquisition of EEG / ECG / EMG signals and more.
g.Recorder is available for g.BSamp, g.MOBIlab+ and g.USBamp. It supports all g.tec biosignal-acquisition devices and provides a comfortable configuration and setup of the system. Signals and parameters can be checked in the display mode, stored to disk and afterwards reviewed in the offline/replay mode. Video data can be stored simultaneously with the biosignals if required.
The Pocket PC recording software is available for g.MOBIlab+. The system displays the acquired data on the screen for visual control and stores the data to a flash memory on the Pocket PC. Each channel is sampled with 256 Hz. Using a memory of 256 MB allows to acquire and store 8 channels of data for 17 h. With the 1GB storage it is possible to record about 70 h of data.
Research application development environment for testing and releasing applications in the area of biosignal acquisition and analysis: Next to ready-to-go solutions for data acquisition, real-time analysis and data processing (see g.Recorder, g.MOBIlab+, g.RTanalyze and g.BSanalyze), g.tec provides also tools for developing customer specific applications.
The ActiveTwo API for MATLAB® is a programming interface to allow MATLAB developers to capture live data directly from ActiveTwo with low latency and minimal overhead. It has a very sophisticated design, requiring no toolboxes and allowing you to edit code on the fly as you run the application. An integrated device simulator permits off-line development. A built-in data quality check alerts you of data integrity problems. (MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.)
Does your application require real-time or on-line analysis of data AS IT IS ACQUIRED, or can you imagine a way in which such a capability might make your research more efficient and fruitful? If so, these software options may be of interest to you. Each of these applications is compatible with only a limited range of data aquisition devices, so be careful to consider this in your decision making process.
Easy-to use data acquisition and review software software for the f-EEG system with real time display, removal of ballistocardiogram artifact on-line, DC drift correction, evoked potential averaging off-line, data export facility, Windows XP* compatible. For use with the f-EEG system only. * Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.