A 0.09 μ W low power front-end biopotential amplifier for biosignal recording

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 508-516

  Tseng, Yuhwai ^a   Ho, Yingchieh ^a   Kao, Shuoting ^a   Su, Chauchin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biopotential recording; chopper amplifier; flicker noise; instrumentation amplifier

Indexed keywords

BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; BIOPOTENTIALS; BIOSIGNALS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CORE AREA; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFERENCE; ELECTRODE IMPEDANCE; FLICKER NOISE; FRONT-END AMPLIFIER; GM-C FILTERS; IC CHIPS; INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER; LOW POWER; SUBTHRESHOLD REGION; SUPPLY VOLTAGES;

CHOPPER AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS; TELEMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TELEMETRY; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84870560281     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2188029     Document Type: Article

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