Neural Tissue and Brain Interfacing CMOS Devices — an Introduction to State-of-the-art, Current and Future Challenges

An overview and introduction is given concerning CMOS chips used for neural tissue interfacing. Some basics in the biological domain are discussed as well as extracellular neural tissue interfacing approaches, design philosophies applied to high spatiotemporal resolution devices, in-vitro and in-vivo applications, and related challenges in the engineering domain.