Digital and Electrical Engineering

数字和电气工程核心（DEEC），由一名全职协调员和一名兼职协调员组成。 研究生研究助理，由核心主任指导，从零开始设计，以提供数字 电子系统设计、原型设计和实施、定制传感器开发、软件应用 开发和计算机建模与仿真。DEEC为BSCD提供专业知识 电子仪器应用中的研究者;例如，翻译生物事件（即，大脑 电位、力、位移、肌肉动作电位、声学、视频）转换为数字信号， 有效的图形输出。通过使用为快速原型设计的硬件和软件，DEEC能够 将传感器、执行器和视觉显示器与实时控制器、嵌入式处理器快速集成， 台式机或笔记本电脑托管系统。能源和环境部的技术援助为配置提供了支持 数字和模拟数据采集、刺激控制和分析系统的维护。集中 国防部经济委员会提供的工程资源通过提供 原型设计、校准和测试设施，并消除应用程序设计的重复， 发展DEEC创建并维护了计算机服务， 软件维护和更简单的在线协作。需要这些服务来支持、记录 并升级长期项目中使用的软件和系统，以组织大量和持续的 不断增长的软件库，将在一个项目中学到的信息传播给所有BSCD研究人员， 使中心研究者和外部单位之间的合作更有成效。

The Digital and Electrical Engineering Core (DEEC), consisting of a full-time Coordinator and a part-time graduate research assistant, guided by the Core Director, was designed from scratch to provide digital electronic system design, prototyping, and implementation, custom sensor development, software applications development, and computational modeling and simulation. The DEEC provides expertise to BSCD investigators in applications of electronic instrumentation; for example, translating biological events (i.e., brain potentials, force, displacement, muscle action potentials, acoustic, video), into digital signals and producing effective graphical output. By using hardware and software designed for fast prototyping the DEEC is able to rapidly integrate sensors, actuators, and visual displays with real-time controllers, embedded processors, and desktop or laptop hosted systems. Technical assistance by the DEEC provides support in the configuration and maintenance of digital and analog data acquisition, stimulus control, and analysis systems. Centralized engineering resources offered by the DEEC increase overall efficiency and productivity by providing prototyping, calibration and testing facilities, and eliminating duplication of application design and development. The DEEC has created and maintains computer services to enable easier and more robust software maintenance, and simpler online collaboration. These services are required to support, document and upgrade software and systems used in long term projects, to organize the considerable and continually growing software library, to disseminate information learned in one project to all BSCD researchers, and to make collaborations between center investigators and outside the unit more productive.