A silicon neuron based biopotential amplifier for biomedical applications

Author

Qingyun Ma ; Haider, Mohammad Rafiqul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

6-6 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In recent years various types of biosignals originating from the human body are being extensively used for diagnostics as well as therapeutic interventions. An implantable biopotential recording system could capture the detail information of the vital physiologic phenomena in the biosignal. A high performance biopotential amplifier as one of the critical components in the biopotential recording system requires power efficiency, high sensitivity, and suppression of the DC signal. In an attempt to reduce the power consumption, the system noise and the chip size, this paper presents a bio-inspired silicon neuron based low-frequency suppression biopotential amplifier. The amplifier is designed in 0.13 μm standard CMOS process and the total power consumption with 500 mV supply voltage is 4.4 μW. The gain is 34 dB with a -3 dB band of 11 Hz to 7.2 KHz. The input-referred noise is 6.7 μV_rms integrated over the entire band.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplifiers; bioelectric potentials; silicon; CMOS process; DC signal suppression; Si; bioinspired silicon neuron based low-frequency suppression biopotential amplifier; biomedical applications; biosignals; chip size; frequency 11 Hz to 7.2 kHz; gain 34 dB; human body; implantable biopotential recording system; loss -3 dB; power 4.4 muW; power consumption reduction; size 0.13 mum; vital physiologic phenomena; voltage 500 mV; Capacitors; Electrodes; Gain; Neurons; Noise; Power demand; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2014 IEEE 15th Annual

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAMICON.2014.6857785

Filename

6857785