A 1024-channel CMOS microelectrode array with 26,400 electrodes for recording and stimulation of electrogenic cells in vitro

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2705-2719

  Ballini, Marco ^a,b   Muller, Jan ^a   Livi, Paolo ^a   Chen, Yihui ^a   Frey, Urs ^a,c   Stettler, Alexander ^a   Shadmani, Amir ^a   Viswam, Vijay ^a   Jones, Ian Lloyd ^a   Jackel, David ^a   Radivojevic, Milos ^a   Lewandowska, Marta K ^a   Gong, Wei ^a   Fiscella, Michele ^a   Bakkum, Douglas J ^a   Heer, Flavio ^a,d   Hierlemann, Andreas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d Zurich Instruments Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extracellular recording and stimulation; high channel count; low noise; low power; microelectrode array (MEA); multirate switched capacitor filter; neural interface; offset compensation; single slope ADC; switch matrix

Indexed keywords

EXTRACELLULAR RECORDING; HIGH CHANNEL COUNTS; LOW NOISE; LOW POWER; MICROELECTRODE ARRAY; MULTI RATE; NEURAL INTERFACES; OFFSET COMPENSATION; SINGLE-SLOPE ADC; SWITCH MATRIX;

EID: 84908461489     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2359219     Document Type: Article

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