Title :
An implantable CMOS signal conditioning system for recording nerve signals with cuff electrodes
Author :
Papathanasiou, Konstantinos ; Ehmann, Torsten L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
We propose a system architecture for recording nerve signals with cuff electrodes and develop the key component in this system, the small-input, low-noise, low-power, high-gain amplifier. The amplifier is implemented using a mixture of weak- and strong-inversion transistors and a special off-set compensation technique; its performance is validated using Spice simulations
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; bioelectric phenomena; biomedical electrodes; biomedical electronics; compensation; instrumentation amplifiers; integrated circuit noise; low-power electronics; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; signal processing equipment; CMOS LNA; cuff electrodes; high-gain amplifier; implantable CMOS signal conditioning system; low-noise amplifier; low-power amplifier; nerve signal recording; noise averaging; offset compensation technique; strong-inversion transistors; system architecture; weak-inversion transistors; Buildings; Circuits; Contact resistance; Electrodes; Equations; Information technology; Low-noise amplifiers; Signal processing; Skin; Spinal cord injury;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings. ISCAS 2000 Geneva. The 2000 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5482-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2000.857419
