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1. Connect cables for the system following the instructions on the Schematic Diagram for the NeuroCCD shown below.
2. Attach the IDL dongle onto the printer port.

Schematic Diagram of the NeuroCCD System

Units

		FastOne Camera
		FastOne is a high-speed back-illuminated CCD camera which acquires continuous frames at a speed up to 2.7 Kfps.
		Optical Coupler
		Resizes the image created on the microscope image plane onto the 1.44 mm^2 CCD chip at a ratio of 10:1. C-mounts are used for standard microscope mounting.
		Fan Controller
		The fan controller is an electrical on/off switch that turns off the fan in response to a binary pulse sent out by the computer during the data acquisition. It is important, in most cases, to turn the fan off because the fan introduces vibration noise which becomes prominent in the image field where there is spatial contrast.
		Power Supply
		Power supply for the camera.
		Computer
		The data acquisition unit with: 1. a PCI card that connects to the A-to-D inside the camera and 2. a second A-to-D/D-to-A board that records up to 7 channels of electrical data and controls the experiment.
		Control Panel
		The control panel is the switch board for various signals. (1). It receives the trigger signal from the camera via line h. (2). It sends out the control signals from the D-to-A to control the fan (line i), the shutter (line j), the stimulator (line k) and the synchronizing LED (line l). (3). It receives electrical signals via the top 7 channels ( ). The 8^th channel ( ) is currently used for synchronizing signals that synchronize the optical data and the electrical data. Do not use this channel.

Connections:

a. Connects the power supply to the camera.

b. Control line between the camera and its PCI board. (b-f are fiber optic cables)

c. Connection between the camera and the PCI board -- Channel 0.

d. Connection between the camera and the PCI board -- Channel 1.

e. Connection between the camera and the PCI board -- Channel 2.

f. Connection between the camera and the PCI board -- Channel 3.

g. Connects the 2^nd A-to-D to the control panel. The BNC connectors on the front face of the control panel are connected to the inputs and the outputs of the A-to-D.

h. A trigger line from the camera to the control panel. This triggers the electrical data acquisition and the experimental control of the 2^nd A-to-D. The connector on the camera is labeled as "Shutter Sync".

i. Fan control line that turns the camera fan off before the data acquisition to eliminate the vibrational noise caused by the fan.

j. Shutter control that opens the shutter during data acquisition.

k. Trigger pulse for a stimulator.

l. This output provides synchronization signals to the LED and BNC8 (BNC8 is connected internally). Because the first triggering pulse from the camera does not correspond to the first frame acquired, it is important to have this synchronization signal. The pulses marked by a dashed line in the diagram below will appear on the 8^th electrical trace and in the optical data when the user elect to include the synchronization test.

Diagram of Output Signals from i-l