New! 2009-08-31: neurospy is now in limbo.
Learn how to get the latest stable version
here.
2007-08-08: Read the
article
about neurospy in PLoS One.
2007-08-08: Development milestone toward release 1.0 is available for download below.
This is the site of neurospy, the free software for functional
imaging of fast neuronal activity.
neurospy is a modular cross-platform application
framework written in Java for the
NetBeans Platform.
At this time it runs on Windows XP-based
LeCroy
oscilloscopes and drives acousto-optic scanners via USB using the Analog
Devices 9959 Direct Digital Synthesis chip. This combination makes one of
the most powerful systems for scanning microscopy available today
at any price. neurospy is very easy to port to other
kinds of acquisition and scanning hardware.
More details about the construction of the first
neurospy-based imaging system can be found in the PLoS One
article
and in the
braintool wiki.
The sources are kept in a subversion repository on sourceforge.net. The project home page is here.
The latest release of the software is
development
release 200708080041.
ALPHA CODE ALERT! This is a milestone toward release 1.0 which, unlike earlier releases, is a module suite running on
the NetBeans Platform. If you plan on using development
releases you really should be getting the latest module updates either from the subversion repository (best)
or from the update center at http://neurospy.org/updates/updates.xml.
Here is the description of all the files in this release:
neurospy-200708080041.zip
|
The entire platform with all the modules. Includes most of NetBeans 5.5.1. Requires Java 1.6.1. Requires firmware v5. Very large download (44MB). |
neurospy-firmware-v5.zip
|
Firmware and device driver for the AD9959/PCBZ Direct Digital Synthesis board. |
The latest stable release of the older monolithic application is version 0.9.1:
neurospy-0.9.1.zip
|
The program and all the supporting libraries. |
neurospy-firmware-v4.zip
|
Firmware and device driver for the AD9959/PCBZ Direct Digital Synthesis board. |
neurospy-0.9.1-src.zip
|
NetBeans 5.5 project with the source code. |
First install the device driver for the DDS board. See details in the braintool wiki.
Then download and install the latest JDK from
http://java.sun.com/.
Finally, download
neurospy-200708080041.zip,
unzip, and double-click
neurospy.exe in the bin directory to start the application.
Read and contribute documentation on usage, code and architecture of
neurospy in the
wiki.
Maintained by Dejan Vucinic <dejan@salk.edu>
Last updated on August 31st, 2009.