Micropower integrated bioamplifier and auto-ranging ADC for wireless and implantable medical instrumentation

Author

Chi, Yu M. ; Cauwenberghs, Gert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

334

Lastpage

337

Abstract

A micropower, high-resolution biopotential data acquisition circuit for wireless and implantable medical instrumentation is presented. The circuit is an incremental ΔΣ (BioADC) that accepts inputs directly from recording electrodes and serves as both amplifier and digitizer with just a single OTA at the core. Auto-ranging and precise digital gain control allow the BioADC to accommodate input ranges of 1mV to 30mV with DC offset rejection. The hybrid amplifier/ADC achieves up to 12 bits of resolution, a sampling rate of 2.048kHz and an input referred noise of 2.65μVrms at a power consumption of 20/μW. The bioamplifier achieves a noise efficiency factor of 3.1. Live physiological ECG data are shown, acquired by connecting passive Ag/AgCl electrodes directly to the BioADC input.

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; biomedical electrodes; delta-sigma modulation; electrocardiography; power amplifiers; silver; silver compounds; wireless sensor networks; ΔΣ ADC; Ag-AgCl; BioADC; DC offset rejection; auto-ranging ADC; digitizer; electrodes; frequency 2.048 kHz; high-resolution biopotential data acquisition circuit; implantable medical instrumentation; input referred noise; micropower integrated bioamplifier; physiological ECG data; precise digital gain control; recording electrodes; storage capacity 12 bit; voltage 1 mV to 30 mV; wireless medical instrumentation; Capacitors; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Latches; Noise; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ESSCIRC, 2010 Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Seville

ISSN

1930-8833

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6662-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIRC.2010.5619711

Filename

5619711