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McsPyDataTools 
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This package contains Python tools, classes and functions, to handle data recorded 
and processed with Hard- and Software produced by 
'Multi Channel Systems MCS GmbH <http://www.multichannelsystems.com>'_.

Feature list
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* Read HDF5 data files that are compliant to the MCS-HDF5 Raw-Data protocol v. 3 
(usually generated by the HDF5 export function of the Multi Channel DataManager)

* Read data files that are compliant to the HDF5 based MCS-CMOS-MEA RawData format
CMOS-MEA RawData protocol v. 1 (generated by CMOS-MEA-Control) and ProcessedData 
format CMOS-MEA ProcessedData v. 1 (generated by CMOS-MEA-Tools)

* Provides structures to get the recorded raw ADC integer values and the meta data 
of every stream

* Provides methods to get the measured values and timestamps in the correct context
of the recording (scale, physical unit, ... etc.) 

Test file archive
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The McsPyDataTools package is accompanied by a separate archive that contains the 
the raw data files used by the unit tests. The content of this test file archive must 
be copied to the folder **...\McsPy\Test\TestData\** to be used by the unit tests.

:copyright: Copyright 2018 by Multi Channel Systems MCS GmbH, see AUTHORS.
:license: ..., see LICENSE for details.