Making easy even easier.

This page includes a number of software tools to make your job easier. Whether integrating control of our amplifiers into your own software, configuring and testing devices, or fitting final products to patients -- we are here to help. The software downloads are to the right under Download Tools. The descriptions for them are below.

Our Solutions web page is a good place to start if you have any issues using our software tools.

nanoDSP Dashboard

nanoDSP Dashboard is Intricon's brand new engineering software. It puts you behind the steering wheel of IntriCon's latest generation of Digital Amplifier: Scenic. You'll be able to control all aspects of the amplifier features. This installation includes the ADROCOM API installation, so it doesn't need to be installed separately. ADROCOM requires .NET 3.5 to be installed. ADROCOMs installation will download .NET if needed.

Included in the nanoDSP Dashboard download are some setup files (*.MTH), which will allow you to explore nanoDSP Dashboard in it's simulated mode -- where you don't need to be connected to an actual amplifier.

Also available for download is a nanoDSP Production Automation, which is the automated version of nanoDSP Dash Board. This is a simpler non-configurable tool to calibrate Scenic based aids using a pre-configured setup file (*.MTH). The *.MTH setup files are created with nanoDSP Dashboard. This installation includes the ADROCOM API installation, so it doesn't need to be installed separately.

NOTE: Scenic™ is the only digital amplifier that nanoDSP Dash Board works with at this time.

Updates: 2011-11-16 Versions 3.0.101.4, calibration works with FONIX 8000. Starting with Version 3.0.70.1, support for Windows 7 is included.

ADROCOM

ADROCOM is the API (Application Programming Interface) used to communicate with the Scenic Digital Amplifier. Installing this will allow you to integrate Scenic into your own custom software. Make sure to also install the ADROCOM documentation which will guide you through programming with the ADROCOM API. ADROCOM requires .NET 3.5 to be installed. ADROCOMs installation will download .NET if needed.

IntriCon Engineering Tools (Including Slider)

This download features a group of software tools and related amplifier drivers to work with all IntriCon's digital amplifers (except for Scenic). These software tools are Slider, Transducer Utilities, and the Directional Microphone Calibration Utility. Instructions for these tools are installed with this package.

Slider is our main engineering software tool. It features an array of parameter slider bars to adjust all of the audio parameters of the amplifier, and many other controls for configuration of these devices. This program also allows you to see the estimated acoustic performance of a complete hearing aid by using microphone and receiver performance models along with the amplifier model.

The 'Slider' user interface 'rides' on top of standard interface drivers, which provide all of the low level communications to the digital amplifiers via eMiniTec, HiPro^tm, or MicroCard/MicroConnect.

Transducer Utilities allows you to create models of microphones and receivers for use within Slider. Receiver models are created by running frequency responses of actual devices hooked up to an amplifier breadboard. Microphone models use a tabulated form of the sensitivity graphs on the microphone specification sheets.

Microphone Calibration Utility calibrates a hearing aid with two microphones, so that it can be successfully operated as a directional device.

Update: 2012-03-27 IntriCon Engineering Tools Installer Version 9.0.14 includes a new Slider (9.1.88) with support for the updated amplifiers which work with the rocker switch: Spin, SpinNR, NR , and Ethos. The copy feature now works for all amplifiers. Ethos mic and receiver controls now selects from the whole mic and rec subdirectories (other amps to follow).

Digital Drivers Package

This package includes drivers for all IntriCon's digital ampliers. These drivers allow software, like our Slider Engineering Tool, to interface with IntriCon’s digital amplifiers to control the operational parameters of the amplifier. Programmer’s guides are included with all the drivers so that you can easily integrate them into your own custom software.

Update: Latest version (2012-03-26) New Ethos, Spin, SpinNR, and NR drivers to support rocker volume-control/program-switch.

eMiniTec Drivers

There are several industry standard communication interfaces, known as programmers, each of which IntriCon’s Digital Amplifiers can communicate through. The eMiniTec is a very compact and portable programmer that IntriCon sells. Contact our sales department to order one for yourself: hearinghealthsales@intricon.com.

Update: 2011-06-15 (1.02.0001) The last eMiniTec drivers with Windows 7 support were missing the *.inf files, making them not installable. This version fixes that.

eMiniTec