  This document contains the documentation of TOBI (Tools for BCI) Interface A
(TiA).
  TiA is a standardized interface to transmit raw biosignals. It is able to
deal with multirate and block-oriented data transmission. Data is distinguished
by different signal types (e.g., EEG, EOG, NIRS,...), whereby those signals can
be acquired at the same time from different acquisition devices. TiA is built
as a client-server model. Multiple clients can connect to one server.
Information is exchanged via a control- and a separated data connection.
Control commands and meta information are transmitted over the control
connection. Raw biosignal data is delivered using the data connection in a
unidirectional way. For this purpose a standardized handshaking protocol and
raw data packet have been developed. Thus, an abstraction layer between
hardware devices and data processing was evolved facilitating standardization.
