Netcom

Neuralynx provides two Netcom versions: one compatible with Pegasus and another designed for use with Cheetah. Cheetah and Pegasus are Neuralynx's high-performance electrophysiology recording and experiment control software for neural signal processing, display, recording, and network data distribution for customized, online experiment analysis and control.

Netcom Client is an application programming interface (API) that communicates with the NetCom Server in Cheetah or Pegasus for online interaction with custom, user-written programs, resulting in a powerful experiment control environment. NetCom provides network delivery of user-specified subsets of all data records generated by Cheetah or Pegasus for real-time data analysis and experiment control. You can distribute data across the network to one or more computers, each running multiple analysis programs. You can also send commands to control Cheetah or Pegasus and its hardware interfaces, as well as request the status of most Cheetah or Pegasus parameters.

NetCom programs can generate Event Records to mark significant events during an experiment. These records are logged to the Cheetah or Pegasus Event Record file (.nev). All Event Records processed by Cheetah or Pegasus are sent to all NetCom programs.

Neuralynx provides low-level C++ code, using .MEX-files as a wrapper to interface with the MATLAB^® workspace. Customers can build their own MATLAB scripts using the .MEX API provided by Neuralynx. Primary users of this capability are neuroscience researchers. We recommend MATLAB and Simulink^® products—specifically MATLAB—for developing custom APIs for online interaction with our electrophysiology recording and experiment control software. This approach enables bi-directional transfer of electrophysiological, digital, and video tracking data between MATLAB and multiple networked computers. While NetCom does not natively integrate with Simulink, users can incorporate Simulink models via custom bridging code, depending on their application.