Owner manual

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3 Configuration
3.1 Hardware Configuration
For setting up an experiment with LTP-Director program you have three hardware configuration
options:
 Using a MEA2100-System consisting of interface board and different configurations
of headstages with integrated data acquisition, amplifier, and stimulus generator.
 Using a data acquisition system (USB-ME64- / 128- / 256-System or MC_Card),
a MEA1060-BC amplifier, and a stimulus generator STG of the 2000 or 4000 series.
 Using an USB-MEA32-STIM4-System with integrated data acquisition, amplifier,
and stimulus generator.
Certain hardware configurations provide the possibility to use the LTP-Director software
with multiple instances on a single data acquisition computer to run more than one amplifier
simultaneously, for example the MEA2100-System with two headstages, or an USB-ME256-System
with four MEA1060-BC amplifiers. You can control each amplifier with one software instance
completely independently, that means, you can run up to four independent experiments in
parallel.
If no hardware is connected, the LTP-Director starts in simulation mode.
The following hardware configurations are supported and can be selected in the “Hardware
Settings” of the LTP-Director:
Confi-
guration
Data
Acquisition
Device
Number of
Amplifiers and
Instances of
LTP-Director
Amplifier Stimulus Generator
STG
Simulation - - - -
MEA2100 MEA2100
Headstage
1
–
4 integrated
amplifier
integrated STG
MEA60 MC_Card 1 MEA1060-BC STG 2000 or 4000 series
ME64 USB-ME64-
System
1 MEA1060-BC STG 4002 / 4004 / 4008
ME128 USB-ME128-
System
1 - 2 MEA1060-BC STG4004 / 4008
ME256 USB-ME256-
System
1 - 4 MEA1060-BC STG 4008
ME32 USB-MEA32-
STIM4
1 - 4 integrated
amplifier
integrated STG