Page 10 FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
CYBERAMP 380, COPYRIGHT MARCH 2002, AXON INSTRUMENTS, INC.
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RS-232 interface.
The CyberAmp communicates with the host computer over a standard serial
communications port, known as an RS-232 interface. All communications are initiated by the
host. Communications on the serial port must operate at a speed between 300 bits per second
(baud) and 19,200 baud. The CyberAmp 380 automatically adapts itself to operate at the rate
initiated by the host computer. There is no need for the user to set any switches to establish the
baud rate on the CyberAmp.
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Test and control software.
The CyberAmp 380 also is supplied with a program named
CMD300 that can control all features of the CyberAmp. This text-based program is not a data
acquisition program, but a program that accepts commands from the DOS command line and
sends them out the serial port to the CyberAmp. It is designed for PC-compatible computers.
CMD300 serves the two purposes of (1) test and functional checkout, and (2) addition of
control to data acquisition software lacking CyberAmp support.
SoftwareQuick300 is an alternative DOS program for quickly and conveniently controlling the
most needed features of the CyberAmp 380. It presents a spread sheet that shows the current
settings of the CyberAmp. Each channel is represented by a column and each function is
represented by a row. The arrow keys on the keyboard are used to move to the desired function
of any channel, and the <PgUp> and <PgDn> keys are used to scroll through permissible values
of the function. The change in the selected CyberAmp function is immediate.
For Windows and Macintosh users, the CyberControl program is provided.
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Commercial applications software.
Most data acquisition software supplied by Axon
Instruments supports the CyberAmp 380. These include pCLAMP, an acquisition and analysis
program for neurophysiology, and AxoScope, a general purpose acquisition program. Ask
other vendors if their commercial data acquisition software supports the CyberAmp 380.
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User applications software.
Many researchers and engineers develop their own data
acquisition software. To assist in this development, the CyberAmp 380 is delivered with PC
libraries of communications and control procedures. Libraries are provided for both the C and
QuickBASIC programming languages. These software libraries are not copyrighted and may be
freely incorporated or modified by end users or by commercial software developers.
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Acquisition hardware.
Because it outputs conditioned analog signals, the CyberAmp works
equally well with all data acquisition boards. The control of the CyberAmp depends only on
the RS-232 communications port of the host computer.
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