A low-power fully implantable 15-channel retinal stimulator chip

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2322-2337

  Theogarajan, Luke S ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive bandwidth; Amplitude shift keyed (ASK); Delay locked loop (DLL); Retinal prosthesis; Self biased; Single differential

Indexed keywords

METAL RECOVERY; PULSE GENERATORS;

ADAPTIVE BANDWIDTH; AMPLITUDE SHIFT KEYED (ASK); DELAY-LOCKED LOOP (DLL); RETINAL PROSTHESIS; SELF-BIASED; SINGLE-DIFFERENTIAL;

PROSTHETICS;

EID: 54049125391     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2004331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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