SpikeSource class

(Shortest import: from brian2 import SpikeSource)

class brian2.core.spikesource.SpikeSource

Bases: object

A source of spikes.

An object that can be used as a source of spikes for objects such as SpikeMonitor, Synapses, etc.

The defining properties of SpikeSource are that it should have:

• A length that can be extracted with len(obj), where the maximum spike index possible is len(obj)-1.

• An attribute spikes, an array of ints each from 0 to len(obj)-1 with no repeats (but possibly not in sorted order). This should be updated each time step.

• A clock attribute, this will be used as the default clock for objects with this as a source.

spikes

An array of ints, each from 0 to len(obj)-1 with no repeats (but possibly not in sorted order). Updated each time step.

clock

The clock on which the spikes will be updated.