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Software Components
The required Codamotion system software will normally be installed on your computer by
Charnwood Dynamics. Shortcuts to the Codamotion Analysis software applications
should be available on the Windows desktop and/or on the Windows Start Menu.
Hardware supported by Codamotion Analysis Software (V6.xx)
Up to 8 Coda cx1 units using two cPCI Quad UART boards in an active hub unit.
Up to 4 Coda cx1 units using one or two mini hub units.
requires one serial interface for each Coda unit.
Up to 2 third party 16-bit analogue I/O with digital I/O cPCI boards for Force
platform and/or EMG data acquisition. (Typically 32/64 analogue input channels
and 4/8 analogue output channels can be supported with digital I/O).
Up to 2 32–channel cPCI filter boards for use with the above analogue I/O boards.
ADC-64 64-channel Analogue Acquisition unit (includes 15-channel Digital I/O) for
Force platform and/or EMG data acquisition.
requires a DSP32 (mpx30) interface card (one ISA slot in the host PC)
Video acquisition from any Video-for-Windows (VfW) compatible device
for example, a USB Web Cam.
Data Analysis
To analyse existing data files, you need the following files:
CODA MA6xx_xxx.exe Codamotion Analysis Application program file (Version 6.xx).
CODA MA6xx_xxx.hlp On-line Help documentation.
These files are normally located in a directory named “C:\Codamotion”
There are normally one or more Setup files (*.stp) associated with data files (*.mdf).
These may be located in the main Codamotion folder, or in different project folders.
If there is an “ADemo1.stp” Setup file and an “ADemo1.mdf” data files in the main
Codamotion folder, these may be opened and animated automatically using the Run
Demo command in Codamotion Analysis (Help menu).
Data Acquisition
To acquire data from the Codamotion system, the following additional files are required.
C:\Codamotion\
CodaSys.cfg - System configuration information file (text)