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Hardware design of the cortical-diencephalic centre of the lower urinary tract neuroregulator system

Authors :
Jose Vicente Berna-Martinez
Roberto Sepúlveda-Lima
Leandro Zambrano-Mendez
Francisco Macia-Perez
Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Tecnología Informática y Computación
GrupoM. Redes y Middleware
Source :
RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Alicante (UA)
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

The neuroregulator system in humans controls organ and system functioning. This system comprises a set of neural centres that are distributed along the spinal cord and act independently together with their nerve interconnections. The centres involved in this task were isolated in previous studies through investigations of the functioning and composition of the neuroregulator system of the lower urinary tract to elucidate their individual performances and enable the creation of a general neuroregulator system model capable of operating at the neuronal level. Although the long-term goal of our research is the development of a system on chip (SoC) capable of behaving as a fully programmable neuroregulator system, this work is another step in which we test the viability of the hardware design of one of these neuroregulator centres (specifically the cortical-diencephalic centre) to achieve a first prototype and architectural proposal. To this end, the behaviour of this centre has been isolated, a hardware design implemented on FPGA has been proposed to create a prototype, a simulation environment has been built for the evaluation, and finally, the results have been analysed. This system verified that the functional behaviour corresponded to the expected behaviour in humans and that the operational requirements for the implementation were technically and architecturally viable. We propose a hardware design of the Cortical-Diencephalic centre.We have implemented the hardware design on FPGA system.We analysed the results and verified that the functional behaviour corresponded to the expected behaviour in humans.

Details

ISSN :
18790534
Volume :
77
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Computers in biology and medicine
Accession number :
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