Energy efficient low-noise multichannel neural amplifier in submicron CMOS process

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1764-1775

  Kmon, P ^a   Grybos P ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

ASIC; multichannel recording system; neurobiology experiments; submicron processes

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS;

CHANNEL PARAMETER; MULTICHANNEL RECORDING SYSTEM; MULTIELECTRODE ARRAYS; NEURAL RECORDING SYSTEMS; NEURAL RECORDINGS; RECORDING CHANNELS; SUBMICRON; SUBMICRON TECHNOLOGIES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84880075362     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2012.2230504     Document Type: Article

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