title: A Turbo Pascal program for on line spike data acquisition and analysis using a standard serial port.
abstract: A Turbo Pascal program for data acquisition and analysis is presented. The program detects incoming data as TTL pulses through the serial port of an IBM-PC and compatible computers and displays the instantaneous frequency plot and the interval histogram on-line. Novel features of this Pascal program are: no special hardware requirements and on-line analysis of more than one source at a time. No hardware additions to the supplied computer and easy operation make this program a valuable tool, directly useable in an IBM-PC and compatible computers.
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000557:Ambystoma; D000818:Animals; D003199:Computer Systems; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D008838:Microcomputers; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth / Q000294:innervation