Command: pulsepacket_generator

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Name:
 pulsepacket_generator - Generate sequence of Gaussian pulse packets.
Description:
  The pulsepacket_generator produces a spike train contains Gaussian pulse
  packets centered about given  times.  A Gaussian pulse packet is
  a given number of spikes with normal distributed random displacements
  from the center time of the pulse.
  It resembles the output of synfire groups of neurons.

Parameters:
  pulse_times  double - Times of the centers of pulses in ms
  activity     int    - Number of spikes per pulse
  sdev         double - Standard deviation of spike times in each pulse in ms

Remarks:
  - All targets receive identical spike trains.
  - New pulse packets are generated when activity or sdev are changed.
  - Gaussian pulse are independently generated for each given
    pulse-center time.
  - Both standard deviation and number of spikes may be set at any time.
    Pulses are then re-generated with the new values.

Sends:
 SpikeEvent

SeeAlso:spike_generator StimulatingDevice
Source:
 /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/nest-2.4.1/models/pulsepacket_generator.h

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