Embedded System Design for Bioelectronic Interface to Sensory Cortex

Visual perception is a pillar of human life. Visual impairment, therefore, has a severe impact on the quality of life. The Bioelectronic Interface to Sensory Cortex (BISC) project is aimed at building a system capable of both recording and stimulating neurons in order to remedy visual impairment. The proposed BISC system consists of three...

Towards high-level synthesis of neural models on FPGAs

Recent trends in studying the brain activity have attracted interest in the simulation of neurons to understand the brain functionality. However, these simulations are computationally intensive and time consuming, which limits this study. High-performance FPGA-based platforms are being utilized to accelerate these simulations. However, the...