A 230-nW 10-s time constant CMOS integrator for an adaptive nerve signal amplifier

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1968-1975

  Rieger, Robert ^a,b   Demosthenous, Andreas ^a   Taylor, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Austriamicrosystems Switzerland AG   (Switzerland)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filter; Implantable biomedical ICs; Integrator; Very large time constants; Weak inversion CMOS circuits

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CAPACITANCE; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; WAVE FILTERS;

ELECTRONEUROGRAM (ENG) SIGNALS; IMPLANTABLE BIOMEDICAL ICS; INTEGRATOR; TIME CONSTANTS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 8344250238     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.835818     Document Type: Article

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