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