This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173, Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) provides $2,167,850 to Spikegadgets, Inc. to commercialize an integrated electrode-electronics system for large-scale, long-lasting electrophysiology. The goal is to enable multi-electrode array (MEA) manufacturers to scale their products to many more electrodes by integrating electronics directly onto the arrays, reducing the need for bulky connectors. This will provide researchers with diverse electrode types and increased channel counts to support a wide range of behavioral studies across species. The project also involves developing versatile electronics and powerful software to interface with the integrated circuits, making the MEA systems usable in diverse experimental settings. As a sub-award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is designing an integrated circuit to amplify and digitize 512 channels of neural data to support this electrophysiology platform.
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