Engineering Core

HEI Engineering核心提供高度技术性的工程专业知识，以实现尖端技术 一系列不同科学家面临的实际问题的技术解决方案。工程解决方案是 在性质上是间歇性的，需要几个月的高度熟练的工程专业知识，但只是偶尔发生。 个别调查人员通常没有足够的持续工程需求来证明 全职工程人员。工程核心将保持在快速变化的专业知识 支持用于科学应用的新的和创新的使能技术。 涉及听觉假体和听力评估系统的现代听觉研究取决于 很大程度上依赖于数字信息的实时处理。工程核心将实时保持专业知识 数字信号处理(DSP)硬件和软件(目标1)。工程核心将开发和 维护USB和IEEE 1394等与主机的通信接口方面的专业知识 实验室仪器专用硬件/软件平台。(目标2)。许多实验性的 应用程序需要精确触发和协调多个设备，时间尺度如下 短至微秒，图像数据的空间分辨率在微米范围内。工程核心 将开发和维护硬件和软件，以实现对各种设备的精确控制。(目标3)

The HEI Engineering core provides highly technical engineering expertise to enable cutting edge technical solutions to practical problems faced by a diverse array of scientists. Engineering solutions are episodic in nature, requiring several months of highly skilled engineering expertise, but only infrequently. Individual investigators generally do not have sufficient engineering needs on a continuing basis to justify full-time engineering personnel. The Engineering Core will maintain expertise in rapidly changing technologies to support new and innovative enabling technologies for scientific applications. Modern auditory research involving auditory prostheses and hearing assessment systems depends heavily on real-time processing of digital information. The engineering core will maintain expertise in realtime digital signal processing (DSP) hardware and software (Aim 1). The engineering core will develop and maintain expertise on the communication interfaces such as USB and IEEE 1394 with host computers and specialized hardware/software platforms for laboratory instrumentation. (Aim 2). Many experimental applications require precise triggering and coordination of multiple pieces of equipment, on time scales as short as microseconds and for spatial resolution of image data in the micron range. The engineering core will develop and maintain hardware and software to allow precision control of diverse equipment. (Aim 3)