Multichannel Systems STG4004+STG4008 Manual - Manual (Page 9)

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3 First Use of the Stimulus Generator
3.1 Welcome to the STG and MC_Stimulus
Product line overview
Stimulus generators of the 4000 series are general purpose stimulators designed for a wide
variety of applications, both in vitro and in vivo.
Flexible and easy-to-use MC_Stimulus software enables complex stimulus waveforms (both
current and voltage). Waveforms designed in the program or imported from an external ASCII
file are converted by the connected STGs into pulses, which are sent to stimulating electrodes.
Stimulus isolation units (SIU) for each channel are included. Thus, no external SIUs are required.
A trigger input and output for TTL signals allows to synchronize the stimulus generator
with other instruments. Triggering of other devices via programmable TTL pulses (Sync Out)
is possible, as well as triggering of the STG by external devices via the Trigger In input.
For example, you can synchronize stimulation and recording with a TTL signal sent from
the Sync Out output of the STG to the data acquisition system, for example, the MC_Card.
Stimulus generators are available with two, four or eight completely independent stimulation
channels (STG4002, STG4004, STG4008). Each channel is freely programmable, combination of
channels to achieve complex stimulation patterns is not necessary.