Copyright  1998-2002 Marshall R. Mayberry, III

The SIGNALSIM Educational Spiking Neuron package contains the C source code 
for the SIGNALSIM system, as well as a selection of scripts.  The system
is designed to visualize a network of spiking neurons.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published
by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope
that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the
implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.

We hope that this software will be a useful starting point for your own
explorations in connectionist NLP. The software is provided as is,
however, we will do our best to maintain it and accommodate
suggestions. If you want to be notified of future releases of the
software or have questions, comments, bug reports or suggestions, send
email to martym@cs.utexas.edu.

Getting the software
--------------------

The Signalsim package can be obtained from
  ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/neural-nets/software/signalsim3.0.tar.gz
or by visiting the UTCS Neural Networks page
  http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/pages/software/abstracts.html#signalsim

SIGNALSIM has been compiled and tested on
* RedHat Linux 7.2
* Sun Sparc (SunOS 5.5) Solaris 2.5

If your platform is not one of those listed above, you should still be
able to build the package with minimal effort.  In general, you will
need X11R6 and an ANSI C compiler.

First of all, uncompress and untar the distribution file:

              tar zxvf signalsim3.0.tar.gz

in the directory from which you wish to run the software (usually your
own or /usr/local).  This will create a directory having the following
structure:

                           signalsim
                            |
                 -------------------------
                 |                       |
              scripts                   src


Versions
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v2.0 10/27/98 martym
v3.0 12/01/02 martym
