System Overview, Version 9 - including BrainSight support

Signal is a sweep based data acquisition and analysis package. Its uses range from a simple storage oscilloscope to complex applications requiring stimulus generation, data capture, control of external equipment and custom analysis. This flexibility makes it ideal for a wide range of applications including transient capture, patch and voltage clamp, LTP studies, evoked response and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).

• Signal is simple to set up for data capture and analysis
• Signal has the sampling and analysis features most researchers need, in a user-friendly environment. A built-in script language automates repetitive tasks and provides additional tools for custom analyses and applications.
• Signal supports the Brainsight Neuronavigation system. Coil co-ordinates are stored as frame variables making it possible to produce a position - response amplitude contour map. Position data is also used for optional lock-out of stimulation if the coil is not on target; this includes coil pitch and roll. Multiple coils can be tracked simultaneously.

• Signal has control for the CED 3505 programmable attenuator. Attenuation levels and optional headphone channel muting can be applied for different states.
• It also supports the Digitimer DS8R constant current stimulator.
• Signal includes functions for specific application areas including dynamic clamp, whole cell and patch clamp electrophysiology and evoked response including control of magnetic and other stimulus devices.
• It also supports the Digitimer DS8R constant current stimulator.
• Signal imports data recorded by many other systems, you can take advantage of this extremely versatile system to analyse existing data.
• Optional windows can show dynamic information in text and images at large scale, to be visible across the lab.

The powerful data capture and time-saving analysis functions of Signal together with one of the CED 1401 family of laboratory interfaces make an extremely flexible and cost effective pillar of any laboratory.