A 20 pJ/b (10 µW) digital receiver based on a new modulation (SAS) for retinal prosthesis application

Author

Goodarzy, F. ; Skafidas, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

13-15 April 2011

Firstpage

393

Lastpage

394

Abstract

Low power consumption and small size transceivers are critical for biomedical instruments and devices specially those that are implanted. In this paper a novel modulation scheme called saturated analog signal (SAS) has been developed that can reduce the power consumption and area of the receiver. The new CMOS receiver is implemented in 65nm technology and operates in the MICS band (402-405 MHz), while consumes 10 μW from a 1 V power supply to deliver 500 Kb/s of data and occupies an area of just 0.6 mm². This is equivalent to an energy consumption of 20 pJ/b and the design is capable of being fully integrated on single chip solutions for retinal prosthesis and embedded neural applications.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomedical communication; eye; modulation; prosthetics; radio transceivers; CMOS receiver; biomedical instrument; bit rate 500 kbit/s; digital receiver; embedded neural application; frequency 402 MHz to 405 MHz; modulation scheme; power 10 muW; retinal prosthesis; saturated analog signal; size 65 nm; transceiver; voltage 1 V; Bit error rate; Modulation; Power demand; Prosthetics; Receivers; Retina; Synthetic aperture sonar; CMOS; MICS; integreated circuit; low-noise amplifier; medical implant; saturated analog signal(SAS); ultra low power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS), 2011 IEEE 14th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cottbus

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9755-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DDECS.2011.5783117

Filename

5783117