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SciWorks® Discovery

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Intergrated Software Suite  A-M Systems SciWorks® Discovery
Description

Comprehensive data acquisition and analysis software for any research protocol.
From 1 to 128 channels.

 

A-M Systems SciWorks Discovery software and advanced A/D hardware is the perfect complement to our low-channel count extracellular or intracellular amplifiers. It is designed to work with 1 to 8 single-ended channels of data. If you require more data processing capability, then consider our Discovery Pro system with more channels, optional video support, and a faster sampling rate. SciWorks Discovery is a real-time data acquisition, analysis, and instrument control application designed for a wide variety of electrophysiology experiments. It provides the user with a single interface to control instrumentation, perform real-time data analysis, including multi-unit spike sorting and separation, generate complicated stimulation patterns, and write data to a multiple of common industry-defined data formats.

Common applications include:

  • Single-Unit Recording*
  • Multi-Unit Recording*
  • Evoked Responses
  • Field Potentials
  • EEG
  • ECG / EKG
  • ERG
  • EMG
  • Sleep Studies
  • Behavior
  • LTP / LTD
  • Voltage Clamp
  • Current Clamp
  • Dose Response Curve
  • Motor Unit Activity
  • Intracellular Recording
  • Respiration
  • Pulse Oximetry
  • Motion
  • Blood Pressure
  • GSR
  • Brainstem Evoked Response
  • Auditory Evoked Response**
  • Video Capture and Analysis***

* Discovery is limited to 3 channels simultaneously of spike recording due to bandwidth considerations.
** Discovery Pro only
*** Discovery Pro only; requires optional VideoBench Module

 

 

Data acquisition and analysis processes are seamlessly integrated into a single software package. Users can define how the experiment should run, collect data, run complicated analysis tools, and store raw and analyzed data all at the same time — without having to change software packages.

Discovery can be paired with a BNC breakout box providing direct access to the most critical connections of the A/D card or a screw-terminal accessory for a less expensive solution.

 

SciWorks® SciWorks Discovery Pro Data Acquisition And Analysis System

While SciWorks Discovery is the ideal data acquisition and analysis system for most electrophysiology experimental protocols, there are situations where upgrading to Sciworks Discovery Pro makes scientific and financial sense. If you are interested in acquiring and processing more than 8 channels of data, then upgrading to one of our SciWorks Discovery Pro options can give you access to up to 128 channels of capability. SciWorks Discovery’s underlying 8-channel data acquisition card’s clockrate is sufficient to generate simple stimuli. However, if your experimental protocols require delivering complicated stimulus trains, or auditory stimuli, then it is recommended to upgrade to SciWorks Discovery Pro. Finally, if your research protocols involve capturing, measuring, and analyzing video data, then SciWorks Discovery Pro with the optional VideoBench add-in is the software package to be used.

Upgrading to SciWorks Discovery Pro is also cost effective. While you can pay a price difference later to upgrade from the Discovery to the Discovery Pro software package, it is necessary to purchase the required a/d hardware that supports Discovery Pro at full price. Thus, purchasing Discovery Pro upfront means not double paying for acquisition hardware systems.

 

Features of Discovery vs. Discovery Pro

While SciWorks Discovery is the ideal data acquisition and analysis system for most electrophysiology experimental protocols, upgrading to Sciworks Discovery Pro enables the scientist to use the tools of Sciworks for more channels of data, to generate more complicated stimulation sequences and waveforms, and to incorporate video acquisition and analysis.

Upgrading to SciWorks Discovery Pro is also cost effective. While you can pay a price difference later to upgrade from the Discovery to the Discovery Pro software package, it is necessary to purchase the required a/d hardware that supports Discovery Pro at full price. Thus, purchasing Discovery Pro upfront means not double paying for acquisition hardware systems.

 

Applications

 

SciWorks Discovery and Discovery Pro can be configured to run any of the following experiments, and countless others.

The following list contains only a few examples of the variety of experiments SciWorks Discovery can perform and analyze.

Click on the section headings for details and videos regarding how SciWorks can be used in your lab to measure average responses, measure population spike amplitudes, perform Fourier analysis to obtain a power spectrum, interval measurements, detect seizures, and perform many other protocols. Adding VideoBench to either Discovery Pro bundle enables video collection and analysis functionality.

 

Data Acquisition

An experiment is defined using the built-in tools of SciWorks Discovery or Discovery Pro. These tools are oriented around common experiment tasks, such as data acquisition, stimulus generation and delivery, data display, data analysis, annotation of data, timing, and external device control.

 

SciWorks Discovery Or Discovery Pro provides the user with a single interface to:

 

Data Acquisition (Analog and Digital Input)

Stimulus Generation and Analog/Digital Output

Video: Stimulus Generation and Data Acquisition in SciWorks
Stimulus Generation and Data Acquisition in SciWorks

 

 

Experimental Control, Execution and Timing

Experimental Design and User Interaction

 

 

Data Analysis

SciWorks Discovery or Discovery Pro software enables real-time data-analysis while not interrupting data acquisition.

Spike records can be sorted using the AutoSort module, or sorted by a user driven analysis process. Separated spikes can then be catalogued and quantified for use in rasters, histograms, rate calculations, etc.

EEG records can undergo Fourier analysis online.

Population spikes can be measured.

And all of the analyzed data can be stored at the same time as the raw recordings.

Find something interesting in a review of the analyzed data, but need to go back to the original for a re-analysis? No problem. You can call up the entire record, and start anew. Or, you can instantly jump to a particular time stamp, or experiment marker, without having to load in the entire record.

Features:

File Output and Data Replay

 

 

Current System Requirements:

 

 

Hardware

Sciworks Discovery requires an A/D card for proper operation. The A/D card can be purchased in a convenient breakout box giving you full access to all features of the data acquisition input\output device, including all analog input and output channels, all digital input and output channels, and assorted clocks and triggering ports. It is also available in a standalone screw terminal style USB enclosure.

Specifications for the Discovery A/D card is listed below.

These bundles include cabling from the breakout box to your computer, but do not include BNC cables or ganged input/output cables.

959608    SciWorks Cables-DA-8 Digital I/O Cable With Bare Endings (1 m)

959664    SciWorks Cables-DA-16 or DA-64 Digital I/O Cable With Bare Endings (1 m)

959636    SciWorks Cables-Model 3600 to Ganged Analog Input Cable (1 m)

959635    SciWorks Cables-Model 3500 to Ganged Analog Input Cable (1 m)

 

8-Channel A/D Card Specifications

Analog Input

Analog Output

Digital Input / Output

 

Digital Acquisition Interface A-M Systems  DA-8
Discovery Digital Acquisition Interface DA-8 (included with product 954550)

 

A-M Systems 8 Channel card with screw terminals
Discovery 8 Channel card with screw terminals (included with product 954500)

 

Sciworks Discovery Pro comes bundled with a convenient breakout box giving you full access to all features of the data acquisition input\output device, including all analog input and output channels, all digital input and output channels, and assorted clocks and triggering ports.

Specifications for the respective SciWorks Discovery Pro 16 and SciWorks Discovery Pro 64 channel systems are listed below.

These bundles include cabling from the breakout box to your computer, but do not include BNC cables or ganged input\output cables. Those can be purchased separately.

 

16 / 64-Channel A/D Card Specifications

Analog Input

Analog Output

Digital Input / Output

Digital Acquisition Interface A-M Systems  DA-64
Discovery Digital Acquisition Interface DA-32 (included with product 956000)

 

Digital Acquisition Interface A-M Systems  DA-16
Discovery Digital Acquisition Interface DA-16 (included with product 955000)

 

 

 

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