Brain Imaging & Analysis Center

Mach is our primary stimulus presentation computer. It is usually connected to the monitor on the left.
Mach has the following peripheral hardware connected:

• Keyboard and mouse hard-wired connections
• First video output connected to video switch (CPU 1)
• Second monitor video output connected to video switch (CPU 2)
• Stereo sound output to audio switch boxes

• Current Design 8-button serial response device (USB)
  • button box mode: “HHSC-2×4-C” response box
  • button mode : “HID NAR 12345” (003)
    • must check this mode if power is cycled to the interface
• Current Design 2 axis, 2 button joystick ( shared between 2 scanners )
  • autoconfigure
  • HID Joystick
  • USB - Tethyx
  • after use switch back to button box with above settings
• Current Design Trackball 2 ( shared between 2 scanners )
  • autoconfigure
  • HID HHSC-TRK-2 ( track 2 and comp seem to do the exact same thing )
  • roll ball around to calibrate
  • after use switch back to button box with above settings

• E-Prime SR box (no button box, just scanner trigger) (COM1: 19200 baud, 8 bits, no parity)
• Video switch serial cable on COM2
• Measurement Computing Analog/Digital data acquisition device (USB-1208FS, dev=0, 8 a/d chans)
• Serial cable to Donders on COM3 (e.g. ViewPoint eyetracker or Acknowledge)
• E-Prime dongle (USB)
• Scanner trigger cable connected as input to E-Prime SR box (code=16), and MeasComp analog (ADC3)
• BioPac Respiratory belt signal connected as MeasComp analog input 0 (ADC0), biopac analog ch4
• BioPac Cardiac signal connected as MeasComp analog input 1 (ADC1), biopac analog ( pulse wave ch6 )
• BioPac GSR signal connected as MeasComp analog input 2 (ADC2), biopac analog ch1
• Scanner trigger signal connected as MeasComp analog input 3 (ADC3), biopac analog ch9
• Scanner trigger is also connected to the MCC counter pin (CTR), this would show up as a number increase NOT a positive pulse

Donders is our accesory computer. It is usually connected to the monitor on the right.
Donders has the following peripheral hardware connected:

• Keyboard and mouse hard-wired
• Video output connected to video switch (CPU 3)
• Stereo sound output to audio switch boxes
• Serial cable to Mach (COM1)
• Scanner trigger cable connected as input to parallel port
• BioPac communication (RJ45?) cable
• Falcon video capture card (internal board)
• Mag Concepts eyetracker camera input (NTSC) to video capture card
• OptoAcoustics digital microphone (USB)

• DVD player, video output connected to video switch (CPU 5)
• DVD player, sound connected to Audio switch (DVD - switch 3)
• Stereo sound jack for I-pod, MP3, etc connected to Audio switch (Aux - switch 4)

HDMI Video Switcher

• CPU1 = Primary Display Computer (Mach), primary video output
• CPU2 = Primary Display Computer (Mach), secondary video output
• CPU3 = Secondary/Eyetracker Computer (Donders)
• CPU4 = DVD Player
• CPU5 = Spare connection

• OUT1 = Left Monitor
• OUT2 = Middle Monitor
• OUT3 = Right Monitor
• OUT4 = Projector
• OUT5 = Headphones
• OUT6 = 3D LCD
• OUT7 = Not connected
• OUT8 = Not connected

• USB-1208FS
• Measurement Computing Inc.
• Universal Library User Guide
• biopac manual

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