[FieldTrip] Realtime setup

[Luke Bloy]

Hi Jörn,

This is a great place for me to start. I'm just beginning to think through
a setup so I haven't run into any problems yet. But I'm sure that I will.

Thank you.

-Luke

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Jörn M. Horschig <jorn at artinis.com> wrote:

> Hi Luke,
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> nice to see that you are getting into the realtime business ;)
>
> The software side of realtime analysis should be documented quite well,
> but a bit scattered across the FT page (just in case, e.g.
> http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/development/realtime/ctf or
> http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/development/realtime). As you said, the
> hardware setup itself is not hugely discussed, but that is because there is
> not much to discuss. The FT buffer is implement by a shared memory segment
> (i.e. some reserved address in memory that is accessible) and communication
> between computers takes place via a TCP socket. So, hardware requirements
> are memory and a network card ;) As long as your computers are not too
> ancient, there should also be no problem in terms of computational
> requirements. Our realtime computer is about 3 years old, our acquisition
> computer at least 4 (but I guess more in the range of 6-8 yrs). I am not
> working at the Donders anymore, so I cannot check the exact specs. Are you
> facing any particular problems? Or just asking before setting anything up?
>
>
>
> In the last years, we wrote several papers about how we use the realtime
> implementation at the Donders, maybe they help as well in understanding our
> hardware setup:
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> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811914010064
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> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10548-014-0401-7
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> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912011597
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> If you have any more questions, feel free to ask again.
>
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> Best,
>
> Jörn
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>
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> *--*
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> *Jörn M. Horschig*, Software Engineer
>
> Artinis Medical Systems <http://www.artinis.com/>  |  +31 481 350 980
>
>
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> *From:* fieldtrip-bounces at science.ru.nl [mailto:
> fieldtrip-bounces at science.ru.nl] *On Behalf Of *Luke Bloy
> *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 7:24 PM
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> *Cc:* jm.horschig at donders.ru.nl
> *Subject:* [FieldTrip] Realtime setup
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> Hi all,
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> I'm interested in setting up some realtime analysis on a CTF system.
> Fieldtrip seems to have done quite a bit of work in getting this working,
> but i don't see a lot of documentation / discussion about hardware setup
> etc, but perhaps I'm missing it.
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> Can anyone help me in deciding what is needed at a hardware level to make
> the ft_realtime routines work with a CTF machine?
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> Thanks.
>
> Luke
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