About WillowΒΆ

Willow is an electrophysiology system developed by LeafLabs in collaboration with MIT’s Synthetic Neurobiology Group. The system is based on the Intan RHD chips, and utilizes a scalable, direct-to-disk architecture to efficiently record 1024 channels of neural data.

This documentation explains the setup and usage of the Willow system, as of the 2.0 release, Spring 2017. The latest release of Willow is supported by the website:

http://willowephys.com

This documentation is version 2.0 and was last updated on Jul 20, 2017. A PDF copy of this documentation is available here.

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Figure 1. Willow Datanode with a headstage assembly.