A 1.8 μ W 60 nV/ √ Hz capacitively-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier in 65 nm CMOS for wireless sensor nodes

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1534-1543

  Fan, Qinwen ^a   Sebastiano, Fabio ^b   Huijsing, Johan H ^b   Makinwa, Kofi A A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bio signal sensing; chopping; high power efficiency; low offset; low power; precision amplifier; wireless sensor nodes

Indexed keywords

BIOSIGNALS; CHOPPING; HIGH-POWER; LOW OFFSET; LOW POWER; PRECISION AMPLIFIER; WIRELESS SENSOR NODES;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK; INSTRUMENTS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79959735095     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2143610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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