Thesis

Data Acquisition and Stimulation System

Built on previous work and on research literature, software and firmware were designed, and integrated with instrumentation electronics developed by fellow graduate student Mr. Donovan Squires to realize a measurement and stimulation system for electrophysiology experiments at the Neurobiology Engineering Laboratory at Western Michigan University. A standard electrophysiology experiment was performed with the developed system, and the results compared favorably with results from previous designs.

Required Software and Drivers

Required for building Cypress EZ-USB firmware

• Cygwin (gcc and make)
• fx2lib
• SDCC version 2.9 (newer version no longer supports asx8051)

Required for programming Cypress EZ-USB firmware

• LibUSB
• CySuiteUSB
• FX2loader

Required for Nexys2 Spartan-3E FPGA development

• Xilinx ISE (Webpack)
• Adept Suite