Desktop Software for Patch-Clamp Raw Binary Data Conversion and Preprocessing

Table 4

Processing benchmarks for PCDReader using a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 computer.

Data size	Raw data File size	Memory occupancy	File open time	Data conversion processing time^1	Data conversion processing time^2
1 group, 256 series, 25000 samples per traces	24.6 MB	9.9 MB	<1 sec	23 sec	3 min 29 sec
1 group, 408 series, 25000 samples per traces	38.4 MB	8.7 MB	<1 sec	40 sec	4 min 18 sec
1 group, 2 series, 1220000 samples per traces	50.5 MB	10.8 MB	<1 sec	56 sec	6 min 21 sec
1 group, 713 series, 25000 samples per traces	69.7 MB	28.7 MB	<1 sec	1 min 22 sec	9 min 48 sec
1 group, 1408 series, 25000 samples per traces	131 MB	30.1 MB	< 1 sec	3 min 16 sec	17 min 24 sec

¹ All current trace data was converted into ASCII text format, without data modification.
² All current trace data was converted into ASCII text format, with each sample value multiplied by 10¹².