Breakout Board

The breakout board acts as the central interface for headstages, miniscopes, and auxiliary IO to communicate with the computer. It provides the following features:

• Headstage IO: 2x high-bandwidth, general-purpose headstage communication ports
• Digital Input: 8 bit GPI and button state, 5V tolerant, 4 MHz/channel.
• Digital Output: 8 bit of GPO updated at 4 MHz/channel.
• Analog IO
  • 12 channels, 100 kHz per channel, independently configurable as input or output.
  • Input: independently configurable as ±2.5V, ±5V, or ±10V input voltage range.
  • Output: fixed ±10V output voltage range.
• Clock Output: A programmable-frequency clock that is hardware-synchronized to acquisition
  • Allows breakout board to drive external hardware acquisition.
  • Note: disabled by default.
• Harp Input: An input for a Harp behavioral synchronization signal.
• Heartbeat
  • Periodic signal from host with adjustable beat frequency.
• Memory Monitor
  • Diagnostic device for monitoring hardware first-in, first-out memory use.
  • Used to tune real-time feedback loops for minimal latency.
  • Note: disabled by default.

The following pages in the Breakout Board Guide provide an example workflow, a breakdown of its components, and a Python script for loading data.

Tip

Visit the Breakout Board Hardware Guide to learn more about the hardware such as the LED indicators and various connectors.