A 60 pW gmC continuous wavelet transform circuit for portable EEG systems

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1406-1415

  Casson, Alexander J ^a   Rodriguez Villegas, Esther ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomedical signal processing; Continuous wavelet transform; gm C filter; low power consumption

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; BANDPASS FILTER DESIGN; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; C-CONTINUOUS; CENTER FREQUENCY; CLOSE INTEGRATION; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DYNAMIC RANGE; FILTER-BASED; GM-C FILTERS; LOW CURRENTS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW POWER; LOW POWER CONSUMPTION; LOW VOLTAGES; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; POWER CONSUMPTION; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TRANSCONDUCTORS; WEAK INVERSION REGION;

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 79957634022     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2125010     Document Type: Article

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