Design of a micropower current-mode log-domain analog cochlear implant

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1023-1046

  Germanovix, W ^a   Toumazou, C ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ION IMPLANTATION; LOW PASS FILTERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ANALOG COCHLEAR PROSTHESIS; CONTINUOUS INTERLEAVED SAMPLING; MICROPOWER ANALOG TECHNIQUE; MULTICHANNEL IMPLANTS; SINGLE CHANNEL COCHLEAR IMPLANT; TONE CONTROL;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0034296930     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.877145     Document Type: Article

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