A fully integrated fail-safe stimulator output stage dedicated to FES stimulation

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2076-2079

  Liu, Xiao ^a   Demosthenous, Andreas ^a   Donaldson, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

INTEGRATED FAIL-SAFE STIMULATORS; MINIATURIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34548850082     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iscas.2007.378507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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