Design of a micro power amplifier for neural signal recording

Author

Ben Hmida, Ghazi ; Kachouri, Abdennaceur ; Ghariani, Hamadi

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Nat. Eng. Sch. of Sfax, Sfax

fYear

2009

fDate

23-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes a micro power amplifier for neural signal recording. We describe an amplifier using a differential pair as input stage. Given that neural amplifiers must include differential input pair to achieve a high commonmode rejection ratio (CMRR). The amplifier has been designed in the AMS 0.35 mum, 3-metal, 2-poly, n-well standard CMOS process. Its current consumption is 4.61 muA at plusmn1V supply, which gives a power consumption of 9.22 muW. The CMRR is 113 dB and the power supply rejection ratio (PSRR > 73 dB). The input referred noise is 14.8 muVrms over 100 ~ 10 KHz. The amplifier gives an input DC offset of 196 muV and an output swing of plusmn0.8 V with minimum distortion.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; bioMEMS; bioelectric phenomena; biomedical equipment; neurophysiology; noise; power amplifiers; power consumption; common-mode rejection ratio; current 4.61 muA; current consumption; frequency 100 kHz to 10 kHz; input referred noise; micropower amplifier; n-well standard CMOS process; neural signal recording; power 9.22 muW; power consumption; power supply rejection ratio; size 0.35 mum; voltage 0.8 V; voltage 1 V; Bioelectric phenomena; Differential amplifiers; Frequency; Low-noise amplifiers; Operational amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power supplies; Robustness; Signal design; Transmitters; CMRR; DC offset; Neural signal recording; gain; low noise; micro power amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Devices, 2009. SSD '09. 6th International Multi-Conference on

Conference_Location

Djerba

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4345-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4346-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSD.2009.4956801

Filename

4956801