Bcontrol

Welcome to the documentation wiki for the BControl Behavioral Control System!

Downloading the code can be done from the Installation Guide here.

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Structure of the BControl System

General Overview and road map to the Tutorial/Manual pages
Software Goals and Top Level Architecture
Real-Time Linux State Machine (RTLSM)
Trial Structure using the RTLSM
Dispatcher: a Governing-machine interface to the RTLSM
Solo: a framework to help write large Matlab programs with GUIs
Plugins: modular existing code that you can easily attach to your protocol
- SessionModel: a plugin to coordinate within- and across-session training automation
- sessionmodel2: An upgrade from sessionmodel.
- pokesplot2: An upgrade from pokesplot, completely rewritten to incorporate various new features
Protocol Settings and Data files: How to control the settings under which your protocol will run, and how data is saved.
SQL: Depositing and accessing behavioral data in a mySQL database.

Installation Guide for BControl - old and new systems. Downloading and installing code
Startup Guide for BControl - old and new. Getting the system running.
BControl Settings Interface A system for rig-specific settings

Major, immediate, TODOs (The proper place to track development is here.)

Incorporate AnalogOut and OlfactoryServer into the State Machine Assembler.
Incorporate AnalogOut and OlfactoryServer into the current RTLSM emulator (@SoftSMMarkII)
Calin is writing a new improved emulator that will also handle embedded c-code
Structure Protocol directories so that different labs and different users have different directories. Structure data directories the same. Default lab could be set in config file.
Make sure Dispatcher/disassembler is aware of the timestamps from NSpike (from the clock card in the RTLinux box).

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