FPGA Implementation of Explicit Model Predictive Control for Closed Loop Control of Depth of Anesthesia**The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial contribution of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Republic under grant 1/0403/15 and the contribution of the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the project APVV 0551-11. The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement no 607957 (TEMPO).