Neuroelectronic Interfacing, its Nature and Implementation

Neuroelectronic Interfacing With Cultured Multielectrode Arrays Toward a Cultured Probe

Efficient and selective electrical stimulation and recording of neural activity in peripheral, spinal, or central pathways requires multielectrode arrays at micrometer scale. At present, wire arrays in brain, flexible linear arrays in the cochlea and cuff arrays around nerve trunks are in experimental and/or clinical use. Twoand three-dimensional brush-like arrays and sieve arrays, with around ...

Neuroelectronic Interfacing: Semiconductor Chips with Ion Channels, Nerve Cells, and Brain

Noninvasive neuroelectronic interfacing with synaptically connected snail neurons immobilized on a semiconductor chip.

A hybrid circuit of a semiconductor chip and synaptically connected neurons was implemented and characterized. Individual nerve cells from the snail Lymnaea stagnalis were immobilized on a silicon chip by microscopic picket fences of polyimide. The cells formed a network with electrical synapses after outgrowth in brain conditioned medium. Pairs of neurons were electronically interfaced for non...

Nature-Inspired BASIS Feature Descriptor and Its Hardware Implementation

This paper presents the development of a color feature descriptor wellsuited for low resource applications such as UAV embedded systems, small microprocessors, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) fabric, and its hardware implementation. The BAsis Sparse-coding Inspired Similarity (BASIS) descriptor utilizes sparse coding to create dictionary images that model the regions in the human visua...

Interfacing network coding with TCP: an implementation

In previous work (‘Network coding meets TCP’) we proposed a new protocol that interfaces network coding with TCP by means of a coding layer between TCP and IP. Unlike the usual batch-based coding schemes, the protocol uses a TCPcompatible sliding window code in combination with new rules for acknowledging bytes to TCP that take into account the network coding operations in the lower layer. The ...