Design of ultra-low power biopotential amplifiers for biosignal acquisition applications

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 344-355

  Zhang, Fan ^a   Holleman, Jeremy ^b   Otis, Brian P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; biopotential amplifier; biosignal amplifier; low noise; low power circuit design; neural amplifier; noise efficiency factor

Indexed keywords

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; BIO-SIGNAL AMPLIFIER; BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; EFFICIENCY FACTOR; LOW NOISE; LOW-POWER CIRCUIT DESIGN;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

BANDWIDTH;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPUTER; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; POWER SUPPLY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN DISEASES; COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION; NEUROSCIENCES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84864567697     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2011.2177089     Document Type: Article

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