An Arbitrary Waveform Stimulus Circuit for Visual Prostheses Using a Low-Area Multibias DAC

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1679-1690

  DeMarco, Stephen C ^a   Liu, Wentai ^a,b   Singh, Praveen R ^a   Lazzi, Gianluca ^a   Humayun, Mark S ^c   Weiland, James D ^c  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Digital to analog converter (DAC); Electrical stimulation; Retinal prosthesis; Retinitis pigmentosa; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

STIMULUS CIRCUIT;

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION;

EID: 0141885997     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.817264     Document Type: Article

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