A dual mode FPGA design for the hippocampal prosthesis

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012:2012:4579-82. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346986.

Abstract

One important step towards the cognitive neural prosthesis design is to achieve real-time prediction of neuronal firing pattern. An FPGA-based hardware computational platform is designed to guarantee this hard real-time signal processing requirement. The proposed platform can work in dual modes: generalized Laguerre-Volterra model parameters estimation and output prediction, and can switch between these two important system functions. Compared with the traditional software-based platform implemented in C, the hardware platform achieves better efficiency in doing the biocomputations by up to thousandfold speedup in this process.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Action Potentials*
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Electroencephalography / instrumentation*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Hippocampus / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Nervous System Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Nervous System Diseases / physiopathology*
  • Nervous System Diseases / rehabilitation
  • Prostheses and Implants
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*