A wideband frequency-shift keying wireless link for inductively powered biomedical implants

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2374-2383

  Ghovanloo, Maysam ^a   Najafi, Khalil ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical implants; CMOS; Data rate; Demodulator; Frequency shift keying (FSK); Inductive coupling; Radio frequency (RF); RF idenitifcation (RFID); Wireless

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DEMODULATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

BIOMEDICAL IMPLANTS; DATA RATE; INDUCTIVE COUPLING; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF); RF IDENTIFICATION (RFID); WIRELESS LINK;

DEMODULATORS;

EID: 10944259963     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.838144     Document Type: Article

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