Multichannel recording systems

This is just a quick list of manufacturers/vendors of multielectrode recording hardware, and their roots. Unsurprisingly, they were almost all started by neurophysiologists. It’s interesting how diverse they are, they each seem to have a niche. Some features available from various systems:
– Programmable online DSP processing
– Wireless multichannel recording
– Integrated animal tracking for place cells and/or behavior
– Specialized microdrives

Tucker-Davis Technologies (TDT) – Started by an auditory physiologist, Tim Tucker, from David M. Green’s lab.

Blackrock – Started in 2008 by Richard A. Normann, who also made the famous Utah array.

Plexon – One of the oldest on this list, it was started in 1983 by Harvey Wiggins, who got his start building devices for an auditory electrophysiology lab at the University of Texas.

Neuralynx – Started in 1993 by Casey Stengel.

Multichannel Systems – A German company, founded in 1996 by Andreas Moller and Karl-Heinz Boven.

RP Metrix – Started by Dima Rinberg, who is now at Janelia Farm. He works on olfaction.

Biosignal Group – Founded by Andre Fenton, who is now at NYU.

Axona – Started by Jim Donnett from the O’Keefe lab.

Neuronexus – The company that was spun out of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor’s famous electrode engineering program.

Triangle Biosystems
Alpha Omega Engineering
DataWave Technologies

My personal favorite is TDT: high quality electronics with powerful DSPs, mature software, and some of the best tech support I’ve encountered.

(Hat tip to MH)