The low power MICS band biotelemetry architecture and its LNA design for implantable applications

Author

Hsu, Chen-Ming ; Lee, Chien-Ming ; Yo, Tzong-Chee ; Luo, Ching Hsing

Author_Institution

Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan

fYear

2006

fDate

13-15 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

435

Lastpage

438

Abstract

The exclusive biotelemetry system for implantable measurement utilizing a low-power BPSK transmitter, RF terminal chip for signal up-conversion and receiver is presented. The frequency band used in the human body is the un-licensed band at 402-405 MHz allocated to medical implant communication systems (MICS) by FCC and the ISM band at 2.4GHz is used for transmission in the air. This system has following characteristics: 40 channels with 75k bandwidth, low output power in transmitter and easily be full-integrated that are suitable for implantable applications. The low noise amplifier (LNA) with current reuse technique and cascode structure for high gain and low noise figure is implemented in this paper. The chip is designed and fabricated in TSMC 0.18 mum 1P6M CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; biomedical telemetry; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; prosthetics; CMOS technology; LNA design; MICS band biotelemetry architecture; RF terminal chip; cascode structure; current reuse technique; frequency 402 MHz to 405 MHz; human body; implantable measurement; low noise amplifier; low-power BPSK transmitter; medical implant communication systems; receiver; signal up-conversion; size 0.18 mum; Binary phase shift keying; Biomedical telemetry; CMOS technology; Microwave integrated circuits; Noise figure; RF signals; Radio frequency; Radio spectrum management; Semiconductor device measurement; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ASSCC 2006. IEEE Asian

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9734-7

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-97375-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSCC.2006.357944

Filename

4197683