BCIwiki (bciwiki.com) — SpikeGadgets' multichannel electrophysiology hardware is being used for large-scale neural recording, enabling simultaneous signal acquisition across multiple brain regions. According to SpikeGadgets' website on July 21, 2026, its Modular Stacking Headstage supports chronic recording across 10 brain regions in mice totaling 1,024 channels, and the MePhys platform from the University of Pittsburgh routes 992 electrode contacts covering an entire macaque hemisphere through the headstage.
Additionally, a preprint from Rice University describes a custom ASIC supporting 5,376 simultaneous recording channels, each sampling at 20 kilosamples per second, with over 1.3 Gb/s total data throughput and just 5.5 μVrms input noise. The chip integrates in-pixel amplification, time-division-multiplexed analog-to-digital converters, and on-chip stimulation, paired with a flexible µECoG array.