A CMOS/SOI single-input PWM discriminator for low-voltage body-implanted applications

VLSI Design

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 469-476

  De Lima, Jader A ^a   Silva, Sidnei F ^a   Cordeiro, Adriano S ^a   Verleysen, Michel ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Implanted circuits; Low voltage comparators; PWM decoder; SOI design; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; DATA PROCESSING; DECODING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PROSTHETICS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; THIN FILMS; VISION;

BODY IMPLANTED NEUROSTIMULATOR; IMPLANTED CIRCUIT; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION DECODER; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION DISCRIMINATOR; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0036704752     PISSN: 1065514X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1065514021000012075     Document Type: Article

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