A 100-Channel 1-mW implantable neural recording IC

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2584-2596

  Zou, Xiaodan ^a,b   Liu, Lei ^a,c   Cheong, Jia Hao ^a   Yao, Lei ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Cheng, Ming Yuan ^a   Goh, Wang Ling ^a,c   Rajkumar, Ramamoorthy ^d,e,f   Dawe, Gavin Stewart ^d,e,f   Cheng, Kuang Wei ^a,g   Je, Minkyu ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b Qualcomm CDMA Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f SINAPSE Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology   (Singapore)

^g NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biomedical application; capacitor less LDO; current reuse; dual S H; high power efficiency; low noise neural amplifier; multi channel neural recording system; NEF; power and area trade off; SAR ADC

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NEURONS; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CAPACITOR-LESS; CURRENT REUSE; DUAL S/H; HIGH POWER EFFICIENCIES; LOW NOISE; NEURAL RECORDING SYSTEMS; SAR ADC; TRADE OFF;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY;

EID: 84884909952     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2013.2249175     Document Type: Article

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