Modelling and design of ultra low power implants for closed loop stimulation (B03)

• Subject Area: Electronic Semiconductors, Components and Circuits, Integrated Systems, Sensor Technology, Theoretical Electrical Engineering ; Computer Architecture, Embedded and Massively Parallel Systems
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 299150580

This project provides a highly integrated, ultra-low-power implant with expanded sensorial capabilities to detect biomarkers and with additional processing power to support more complex feedback-controlled stimulation applications. These computationally intensive tasks are constrained by the given tight energy budget and will be addressed by novel algorithm-specific hardware architectures and increased parallelism pursuing an accelerator approach. The sensory placement and reliability will be studied and unified modelling of hardware, software and energy will support the finding of sweet spots in the extremely large design space.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1270: ELectrically Active ImplaNts - ELAINE
• Applicant Institution: Universität Rostock
• Project Heads: Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Haubelt, since 7/2021; Professor Dr.-Ing. Dennis Hohlfeld, until 6/2021; Professor Dr.-Ing. Dirk Timmermann