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- USB3 acquisition is currently fully tested on Windows. It might still not work properly on Linux or Mac (check additional note for Linux users).
- USB3 boards needs to use the rhd2000_usb3.bit bitfile. If both bitfiles are present on the executable folder, the GUI will automatically pick the one it needs. Trying to load the USB2 bitfile on an USB3 board or viceversa will result in an error.
- Plugging an USB3 board on a USB2 port can result on strange behaviours. At the very least, it won't enforce the 256 channel limit as it does with an USB2 board.
- You'll need a fairly powerful machine to be able to acquire 512 channels (Intel i7 at 3.4GHz or equivalent with an SSD disk are recommended).
- The only supported format for writing large amounts of channels is the HDF5 based Kwik format. Since "Open ephys" format opens a file for each channel it can cause a crash when recording a high channel count.
- If the CPU load indicator in the GUI reachs 100%, even if it's in a spiking manner, double check your data timestamps for possible missing blocks.
- Due to the high load caused by 512 channel acquisition and recording, we do not recommend running any extra online analysis or processing apart from basic visualization, as it is easy to overload the CPU, causing data loss.
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