Design of a tunable all-digital uwb pulse generator cmos chip for wireless endoscope

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-124

  Kim, Chul ^a   Nooshabadi, Saeid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biotelemetry; Pulse generator; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ALL-DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE; CMOS CHIPS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; DYNAMIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION; H-BRIDGES; IN-VIVO; LOW AREA; OUTPUT STAGES; POWER SUPPLY; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; STANDARD CMOS PROCESS; STATIC CURRENTS; TIMING CONTROL; TUNABLE PULSE-WIDTH; ULTRA-WIDEBAND PULSE; UWB PULSE GENERATOR; WIRELESS ENDOSCOPE;

BIOTELEMETRY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77950295969     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2009.2037490     Document Type: Article

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