Figure 1. Block diagram of RoSco.

The head mounted module connects to the rodent's head stage. The base station module connects to a PC running USB audio software. Bidirectional communication allows transmission of neural data to the PC, and configuration data to the rat mounted module. The RoSco has one communication module which includes two transceivers that simultaneously operate in parallel to transmit the neural waveform through a single combiner and antenna. The base station module has diversity reception with two communication modules that simultaneously receive the same entire neural waveform in parallel. This provides redundancy and if data packets are missing from one stream the base station can still reconstruct the full neural waveform.