Power issues on circuit design for cochlear implants

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Applications, DELTA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 163-166

  Wang, Zhihua ^a   Mai, Songping ^a   Zhang, Chun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Low power; Power efficiency

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LOW POWER; POWER EFFICIENCY;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

EID: 50649111404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DELTA.2008.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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