{"title":"A sub-threshold voltage ladder rectifier for orthogonal current-reuse neural amplifier","authors":"Changhyuk Lee, Ben Johnson, A. Molnar","doi":"10.1109/BioCAS.2013.6679713","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate an inductively powered, orthogonal current-reuse multi-channel amplifier for power-efficient neural recording. The power rectifier uses the input swing as a self-synchronous charge pump, making it a fully passive, full-wave ladder rectifier. The rectifier supplies 10.37μW at 1.224V to the multi-channel amplifier, which includes bias generation. The prototype device is fabricated in a TSMC 65nm CMOS process, with an active area of 0.107mm2. The maximum measured power conversion efficiency (PCE) is 16.58% with a 184mV input amplitude.","PeriodicalId":344317,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BioCAS.2013.6679713","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We demonstrate an inductively powered, orthogonal current-reuse multi-channel amplifier for power-efficient neural recording. The power rectifier uses the input swing as a self-synchronous charge pump, making it a fully passive, full-wave ladder rectifier. The rectifier supplies 10.37μW at 1.224V to the multi-channel amplifier, which includes bias generation. The prototype device is fabricated in a TSMC 65nm CMOS process, with an active area of 0.107mm2. The maximum measured power conversion efficiency (PCE) is 16.58% with a 184mV input amplitude.