A 1-μA front end for pacemaker atrial sensing channels with early sensing capability

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

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 397-403

  Lentola, L ^c   Mozzi, A ^c   Neviani, A ^a   Baschirotto, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Low power; Pacemaker; Switched capacitor (SC) filter

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GAIN CONTROL; MOSFET DEVICES; PACEMAKERS; PROBABILITY;

SUPPLY VOLTAGE;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0042819848     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2003.813591     Document Type: Article

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