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Synchronized acquisition from Imec neural probes and NI-DAQ devices.

The current commercial version is PXI-based Neuropixels 1.0, also called 3B2.

System Requirements

(What to Buy)

Requirements differ according to platform:

Latest Application Downloads

Suggested organization: Create folder 'SpikeGLX' on your desktop or C:\ then download/unzip associated stuff into it:

SpikeGLX\
    Release_v20190327-phase3B2.zip
    Release_v20190413-phase3B2.zip
    Release_v20190327-phase3B2\
    Release_v20190413-phase3B2\
    Drivers\
        Enclustra_Windows_10\
    Tools\
    Etc\

PXI Enclustra Drivers

These required driver files are not included in your SpikeGLX release.

  1. Click the link below for your Windows OS version.
  2. Unzip the folder into your local folder of SpikeGLX-related stuff.
  3. Follow the installation ReadMe in the download.

Terminology: 'Enclustra' is a company that markets other vendor's FPGAs along with development and support tools. There are several FPGAs used in the Neuropixels hardware, including a Xilinx Zynq model, often referred to as 'the enclustra'.

CatGT

CatGT is a command-line tool that does the following offline operations (all imec phases):

  • Join trials with given run_name and g-index in t-index range [ta,tb]...
  • ...Or run on any individual file.
  • Optionally apply bandpass and global demux CAR filters.
  • Optionally edit out saturation artifacts.
  • Optionally extract tables of TTL event times.
  • CatGT: Global Demuxed CAR

TPrime

TPrime is a command line tool that maps event times (all imec phases):

  • Map time from one SpikeGLX data stream to any other.
  • Translate all events to a single common timeline.
  • Uses sync edges to achieve 1 to 2 sample accuracy.
  • Maps TTL events extracted using CatGT.
  • Maps spike times from any sorter.
  • Sync: Aligning with Edges.

Data Parsing Examples

MATLAB and Python tools for parsing meta and binary datafiles (supports 3A, 3B1, 3B2, 20).

Interesting Map Files

Metadata Guides

Descriptions of metafile items for each phase:

Help

How-to Videos

Licensing

Use is subject to Janelia Research Campus Software Copyright 1.2 license terms: http://license.janelia.org/license.

QLed components are subject to GNU Library GPL v2.0 terms, which are described here: https://github.com/billkarsh/SpikeGLX/blob/master/QLed-LGPLv2-LICENSE.txt.

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