A low-noise low-power front-end amplifier for neural-recording applications

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 301-306

  Zarifi, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Frounchi, Javad ^a   Tinati, Mohammad A ^a   Farshchi, Shahin ^b   Judy, Jack W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosignal amplifier; Neural recording; Operational transconductance amplifier; Subthreshold circuit design

Indexed keywords

BIO-SIGNAL AMPLIFIER; BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CMOS PROCESSS; DESIRED SIGNAL; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES; FRONT END; FRONT-END AMPLIFIER; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL; HEAT DISSIPATION; IN-VIVO; LOW NOISE; LOW POWER; MIXED MODE; NATURAL FUNCTIONS; NEURAL RECORDINGS; NOISE LEVELS; OPERATIONAL TRANS CONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER; OUTPUT SWING; PARALLEL CHANNEL; POWER CONSUMPTION; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; RFIC DESIGN; SUBTHRESHOLD CIRCUITS; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP; TISSUE DAMAGE; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WIDE-BAND;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DESIGN; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; LOW PASS FILTERS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NOISE; POWER SPECTRUM; SIMULATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955339679     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237210002067     Document Type: Article

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