A dedicated microprocessor for urinary incontinence stimulator

Author

Wei, M. ; Duval, F. ; Fontaine, R. ; Mouïne, J. ; Sawan, M. ; Elhilali, M. ; Hassouna, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sherbrooke Univ., Que., Canada

fYear

1994

fDate

20-22 Mar 1994

Firstpage

535

Lastpage

539

Abstract

A programmable memory-content readable urinary incontinence stimulator with very low power dissipation is presented in the paper. To keep the stimulated nerve from getting used to a fixed pattern of stimulation, the spaces in the stimulating pulse stream are randomly modulated. An important feature of this stimulator is its very low power dissipation, about 20 μA in normal operation. This assures that the implant can work up to 10 years with a 3 AH lithium cell

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; application specific integrated circuits; medical computing; microcomputer applications; microcontrollers; programmable controllers; prosthetics; 10 yr; Li; Li cell; dedicated microprocessor; implant; power dissipation; programmable memory-content readable urinary incontinence stimulator; stimulated nerve; stimulating pulse stream; urinary incontinence stimulator; Electrical stimulation; Frequency; Humans; Implants; Lithium; Logic testing; Microprocessors; Modulation coding; Power dissipation; Pulse modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 1994., Proceedings of the 26th Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens, OH

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5320-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.1994.287819

Filename

287819