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Dong Wang¹, Yaoyao Hao, Xiaoping Zhu

¹Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

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Hardware Processing Modules accelerate brain-machine interface (BMI) computations using FPGAs for spike sorting and neural decoding. This significantly reduces processing time while maintaining accuracy for real-time applications.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Science

Background:

Real-time computation, portability, and flexibility are essential for practical brain-machine interface (BMI) applications.
Existing BMI systems often face computational limitations that hinder their real-world usability.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and develop Hardware Processing Modules (HPMs) for accelerating BMI computations.
To implement and test FPGA-based modules for spike sorting and neural decoding.

Main Methods:

Developed two Hardware Processing Modules (HPMs) using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
One HPM implements spike sorting via a Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN).
The other HPM implements neural ensemble decoding using a Kalman Filter (KF).
Configured modules within a unified framework and tested with real rat motor cortex data.

Main Results:

FPGA implementation significantly reduced computation time by several dozen times due to inherent parallelism.
The accuracy of the FPGA-based computations closely matched Matlab implementations.
Demonstrated effective processing of neural signals from rats performing a lever-pressing task.

Conclusions:

Hardware Processing Modules (HPMs) offer a viable solution for accelerating complex BMI computations.
FPGA-based acceleration provides a high-performance coprocessor for neural signal processing.
The developed HPMs enhance the feasibility of real-time, portable, and flexible BMI systems.