| General | |
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| Operating system: | Windows 95 to XP |
| Stimulus source: | Bitmap files |
| Drawing technology: | DirectDraw 5 or later |
| Application control: | ActiveX (COM) |
| Digital IO: | National Instruments digital boards (Legacy drivers) |
| Documentation: | 90 pages, including a programming tutorial |
| Graphics | |
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| Graphic modes: | All modes supported by the system |
| Color coding depth: | 8, 16 and 32 bit |
| Palette selection: | YES (8 bit color depth) |
| Stimulus presentation | |
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| Maximum number of bitmap images: | 32768 |
| Maximum number of films: | 2048 |
| Maximum script size: | unlimited |
| Film construction: | concatenated bitmap files |
| Maximum film size: | unlimited |
| Bitmap operations: | Position, Show, Hide, Smooth move |
| Film operations: | Position, Show, Stop, Speed, Frame change |
| Temporal accuracy | |
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| Stimulus events: | Screen refresh rate |
| Alignment of stimulus events and output TTL pulses: | < 5 µs |
Response time to TTL pulses |
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| IO Dedicated: | < 5 µs |
| Updating stimuli: | 1 ms |
Accuracy of time measurement |
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| IO Dedicated: | < 10 µs |
| Updating stimuli: | ~1 ms |
| Client control | |
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| ActiveX interface: | 27 functions, 6 read values, 3 set values |
| Remote control over LAN: | YES (Client-Server through DCOM) |
| Tested environments for ActiveX control demos: | Matlab, LavVIEW, Borland Builder C++, Visual C++, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Borland Delphi |
| Digital IO | |
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| Maximum number of ports used: | 3 (output TTL, input TTL, output label) |
| Duration of generated TTL pulses: | 1 ms ± 5 µs |
| Setup: | Automatic IO board detection, built in test utility |
| Recommended hardware | |
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| Processor: | 700 MHz or faster, fast data bus |
| RAM: | 128 MB or more |
| Hard disk space: | 300 MB (full installation) |
| Graphic card: | DirectDraw support, large RAM |
| Digital IO board: | National Instruments PCI-6503 |
| Debugging | |
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| Log file: | Invoked functions, screen frames, parameters |
| Onscreen monitoring: | Loaded images, Drawing/idle time, Frame skips, Application state, IO board state, File path, Label |
| Browsing loaded images: | Bitmaps, Films, Palettes |