TY - CPAPER AB - This work investigates the impact of the analoguefront-end design (pre-amplifier, filter and converter) on spike sorting performance in neural interfaces. By examining key design parameters including the signal-to-noise ratio, bandwidth,filter type/order, data converter resolution and sampling rate, their sensitivity to spike sorting accuracy is assessed. This is applied to commonly used spike sorting methods such as template matching, 2nd derivative-features, and principle component analysis. The results reveal a near optimum set of parameters to increase performance given the hardware-constraints. Finally, the relative costs of these design parameters on resource efficiency (silicon area and power requirements) are quantified through reviewing the state-of-the-art. AU - Barsakcioglu,DY AU - Eftekhar,A AU - Constandinou,TG PY - 2013/// TI - Design Optimisation of Front-End Neural Interfaces for Spike Sorting Systems UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/10971 ER -