How can I add additional features to ActiView ?
 

The BioSemi acquisition software (ActiView) is both delivered as an executable and as an LabVIEW library complete with source codes. The easiest way to add real-time modules is to work within the LabVIEW language. Our software is completely open, and the LabVIEW language is quickly learned. However, it is also possible to call Matlab script from the LabVIEW code. In this
last case, you would use our basic acquisition code as a shell for your (existing) MatLab applications. However, if the real-time applications are relatively simple we would advise to reprogram in LabVIEW.

All your off-line work can of course remain fully based on Matlab. You will just have to add a read-in part for our BDF file format. Examples how to do this with Matlab are downloadable from: http://www.biosemi.com/download.htm
The combination LabVIEW_acquisition --> BDF file --> Matlab_analysis is used by many of our customers, and seems to combine the best of both worlds.

It is of course possible to built your own complete new acquisition program in Matlab, but this is a lot of work. Our LabVIEW program works very stable, and it has proved to be very easily adaptable to new research applications. If you have LabVIEW 7 available, you can already play with the source code after downloading the acquisition program from our download page: http://www.biosemi.com/download

The basics of the LabVIEW language are quickly learned. Also, National Instruments offers a free evaluation version of LabVIEW
You can download the latest version of our standard acquisition program ActiView from: http://www.biosemi.com/download/LatestActiView

We deliver the source code of ActiView as a LabVIEW library (*.llb). This library contains all the source code. You can not run the program with traces on the display (data acquisition running) without hardware, but looking at the code will give you an idea of the setup and possibilities/complications.

A LabVIEW manual which describes how to call C routines from LabVIEW code can be downloaded from http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/370109b.pdf (2 MByte)