The 10 mm shank, 70 × 24 µm cross-section, 175 µm tip, 960 sites, 12 × 12 µm site footprint, checkerboard layout and 16 / 20 µm column / row pitches follow the manufacturer’s 2020 Neuropixels 1.0 datasheet. These are nominal values, not a tolerance specification.
The first site centre is placed 200 µm from the tip; this absolute offset was not verified. Five grooves follow the appearance of the manufacturer’s SEM, but groove dimensions, contact relief, pore morphology, head details, gold-coloured metallurgy, trace routing and component placements are illustrative. The tip uses a symmetric straight 175 µm taper; its derived included angle is 22.62°, not an independently imposed 20°.
The reference assembly uses published package and flex envelopes. The drawing-matched head deliberately recreates the supplied AI illustration and is not a verified Neuropixels connector. The two variants share the same shank and electrode geometry. Site IDs are geometric identifiers, not a hardware channel map.
Every site has modeled grooves, shallow procedural relief and an embedded normal texture. The Pores inspection uses a separate high-resolution contact model, with 52,482 triangles. Neither its pore dimensions nor its porosity are measured. No buried CMOS layers or active electrical model are represented.
imec Neuropixels 1.0 datasheet, 13 February 2020 — pages 3–4; manufacturer-authored, distributor-hosted copy.
Official Neuropixels support and design files
Official Neuropixels 1.0 product imagery
Reference visualization only. Not a manufacturer CAD model, fabrication drawing, implant design, electrical netlist or pore-scale electrochemical model.
All six views are rendered from the delivered model. Enlargements have independent scale bars.