A fully-integrated semicircular canal processor for an implantable vestibular prosthesis

Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 81-84

  Constandinou, Timothy G ^a,b   Georgiou, Julius ^a   Toumazou, Christofer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogue signal processing; Semicircular canal; Switched capacitor Alter; Vestibular prosthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANALOGUE SIGNAL PROCESSING; CHIP COMPONENTS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; ENTIRE SYSTEMS; LOW POWERS; MODE SIGNALS; PROCESSING CHAINS; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SWITCHED-CAPACITOR ALTER; TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; VESTIBULAR PROSTHESIS;

PROSTHETICS;

EID: 57849123159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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