Around the world today there are millions of people with severe or total hearing loss. These people can live out fairly normal lives and form connections with other people. However, they are missing out on a key portion of communication, which is the ability to hear and speak. Currently, 325,000 people have been implanted with cochlear hearing implants. The reason that more people haven't been implanted is largely due to the cost. It can cost $30,000 to $50,000 without insurance to get the implant. In 1961 Dr. William House implanted one of the world's first cochlear implants, a surgically inserted device that can give hearing to individuals with sensorineural hearing loss through direct stimulation of the auditory nerve. Dr. House's implant was a single electrode device, which stimulates the nerve in one location. Modern cochlear implants adopt a multi-electrode approach, stimulating different regions of the nerve to resolve different frequencies of speech. The goal of this project is to design a cochlear implant that utilizes only one electrode, which reduces the overall cost of the implant. The single electrode implant hasn't been worked on since the 1970's, so we aim to improve the design by taking advantage of modern technologies like microcontrollers and faster filtering techniques.