A low power CMOS voltage regulator for a wireless blood pressure biosensor

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 729-739

  Crepaldi, Paulo Cesar ^a   Pimenta, Tales Cleber ^a   Moreno, Robson Luiz ^a   Rodriguez, Edgar Charry ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Implanted device; Linear voltage regulator (LVR); Low power; Pressure biosensor; Wireless biomedical device

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL STRUCTURES; CMOS PROCESSS; DISCRETE COMPONENTS; HIGH ENERGY; IMPLANTED DEVICE; LINE REGULATION; LINEAR VOLTAGE REGULATOR (LVR); LINEAR VOLTAGE REGULATORS; LOAD REGULATIONS; LOW POWER; LOW POWER CMOS; LOW-DROPOUT REGULATORS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; LOW-POWER OPERATION; MAXIMUM LOAD; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS; RF LINKS; SILICON AREA; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION; TRANSMITTED POWER;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SIGNAL SYSTEMS; TISSUE; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 84857038266     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2172121     Document Type: Article

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