Neuromorphic hardware systems provide new possibilities for the neuroscience modeling community. Due to the intrinsic parallelism of the micro-electronic emulation of neural computation, such models are highly scalable without a loss of speed. However, the communities of software simulator users and neuromorphic engineering in neuroscience are rather disjoint. We present a software concept that...

Bovine rectal palpation is a necessary skill for a veterinary student to learn. However, lack of resources and welfare issues currently restrict the amount of training available to students in this procedure. Here we present a virtual reality based teaching tool -- the Bovine Rectal Palpation Simulator -- that has been developed as a supplement to existing training methods. When using the simul...

The simulation of surgical procedures, in the case of hard tissues such as bone or teeth milling, using a haptic milling surgery simulator requires a haptic device which can provide high stiffness and transparency. To mimic a real milling process of hard tissue, such as for example creating a narrow channel or cavity, the simulator needs to provide force/torque feedback in 5–6 degrees of freedo...

− A very simple PC based system for simulation of bioelectrical signals is presented. In addition to a regular PC with an audio card and the constructed software only few passive components are needed to accurately mimic the waveforms of the original recorded bioelectrical signals stored in the PC’s hard drive. Alternatively, the simulated signals that are generated from the original recordings...

The increasing number of vehicles and mobile users has led to a huge increase in the development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). In this paper we propose a multi-agent-based driving simulator which integrates a test-bed that allows ADAS developers to compress testing time and carry out tests in a controlled environment while using a lowcost setup. We use the SUMO microscopic simul...

AbstructThe electrical characteristics of modern VLSI and ULSI device structures may be significantly altered by self-heating effects. The device modeling of such structures demands the simultaneous simulation of both the electrical and the thermal device behavior and their mutual interaction. Although, at present, a large number of multi-dimensional device simulators are available, most of the...

Simulation of ferroelectric hysteresis allows the analysis of nonvolatile memory cells which are based on ferroelectric materials. We give an overview of our algorithm for the calculation of e ects caused by eld rotation. Implementation of this algorithm into a device simulator reveals interesting numerical aspects. One of these is that the locus curves of the hysteresis are nonsymmetric, thus ...

Computer simulations of realistic ion channel structures have always been challenging and a subject of rigorous study. Simulations based on continuum electrostatics have proven to be computationally cheap and reasonably accurate in predicting a channel's behavior. In this paper we discuss the use of a device simulator, SILVACO, to build a solid-state model for KcsA channel and study its steady-...