TY - CONF
T1 - 100-Channel wireless neural recording system with 54-Mb/s data link and 40%-efficiency power link
AU - Cheng, Kuang-Wei
AU - Zou, Xiaodan
AU - Cheong, Jia Hao
AU - Xue, Rui Feng
AU - Chen, Zhiming
AU - Yao, Lei
AU - Cha, Hyouk Kyu
AU - Cheng, San Jeow
AU - Li, Peng
AU - Liu, Lei
AU - Andia, Luis
AU - Ho, Chee Keong
AU - Cheng, Ming Yuan
AU - Duan, Zhu
AU - Rajkumar, Ramamoorthy
AU - Zheng, Yuanjin
AU - Goh, Wang Ling
AU - Guo, Yongxin
AU - Dawe, Gavin
AU - Park, Woo Tae
AU - Je, Minkyu
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - For real-time monitoring of brain activities, a highdata-rate, low-power, and highly mobile neural recording system is desirable. This paper presents a complete chipset for a 100-channel wireless neural recording system, which consists of 3 ICs - a neural interface (NI) IC and a wireless power RX and data TX IC for an implant unit (IU), and a wireless data RX IC for an external head unit (EHU). With a dual S/H NI architecture and a burst-mode (BM) wideband (WB) FSK TX, the IU achieves a 100-channel recording and wireless transmission at 54.24Mb/s while consuming only 6.6mW. Using power coupling with optimal resonant load transformation and high-efficiency rectifier and LDO circuits, the whole wireless power link achieves 40% efficiency over 1cm distance with 0.5cm tissue in between. The EHU needs to transmit the RF power lower than 30mW to operate the IU. The EHU is implemented using a crystal-less BM WB FSK RX consuming only 14.4mW at 27.12Mb/s.
AB - For real-time monitoring of brain activities, a highdata-rate, low-power, and highly mobile neural recording system is desirable. This paper presents a complete chipset for a 100-channel wireless neural recording system, which consists of 3 ICs - a neural interface (NI) IC and a wireless power RX and data TX IC for an implant unit (IU), and a wireless data RX IC for an external head unit (EHU). With a dual S/H NI architecture and a burst-mode (BM) wideband (WB) FSK TX, the IU achieves a 100-channel recording and wireless transmission at 54.24Mb/s while consuming only 6.6mW. Using power coupling with optimal resonant load transformation and high-efficiency rectifier and LDO circuits, the whole wireless power link achieves 40% efficiency over 1cm distance with 0.5cm tissue in between. The EHU needs to transmit the RF power lower than 30mW to operate the IU. The EHU is implemented using a crystal-less BM WB FSK RX consuming only 14.4mW at 27.12Mb/s.
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U2 - 10.1109/IPEC.2012.6522656
DO - 10.1109/IPEC.2012.6522656
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84881064629
SP - 185
EP - 188
T2 - 2012 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2012
Y2 - 12 November 2012 through 14 November 2012
ER -