# MWorks and Neuropixels **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [September 8, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/mworks-and-neuropixels/170 "2020-09-08T15:33:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![cstawarz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/mworks.discourse.group/cstawarz/32/3_2.png) [@cstawarz](https://mworks.discourse.group/u/cstawarz)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/mworks-and-neuropixels/170/2 "2020-09-08T15:57:41Z")
Hi Marcus, NI’s drivers for macOS support only a very limited [set of devices](https://mworks.tenderapp.com/kb/io-devices/setup-for-using-ni-daq-devices). About a year ago, NI announced that they were [ceasing development of said drivers](https://mworks.github.io/news/2019/09/19/nidaqmxbase-eol/). This means that, in the near future, MWorks will no longer have a way to control any NI hardware. However, none of that is relevant for you, as PXIe devices were never supported on macOS. According to the [Neuropixels user manual](https://www.neuropixels.org/support), the software drivers required to interface with the hardware are available only for Microsoft Windows. (I see that the [Open Ephys Neuropixels interface](https://open-ephys.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OEW/pages/77332482/Neuropixels+Probes) is available only on Windows, too.) Therefore, it won’t be possible for MWorks to support the Neuropixels hardware directly. Any interaction will likely need to take place over a network connection to a Windows machine, potentially via some intermediate software (e.g. a Python script running on the Windows box that receives commands from MWorks via TCP/IP and relays them to the Neuropixels device). Alternatively, if you can communicate with the Neuropixels hardware via TTL signals, then you could use a general-purpose I/O interface (e.g. a [Firmata](https://mworks.github.io/documentation/latest/components/firmata_device.html) board) to control the hardware from MWorks. Cheers, Chris --- _[View the full topic](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/mworks-and-neuropixels/170)._