100-Channel wireless neural recording system with 54-Mb/s data link and 40%-efficiency power link

  • Kuang Wei Cheng
  • , Xiaodan Zou
  • , Jia Hao Cheong
  • , Rui Feng Xue
  • , Zhiming Chen
  • , Lei Yao
  • , Hyouk Kyu Cha
  • , San Jeow Cheng
  • , Peng Li
  • , Lei Liu
  • , Luis Andia
  • , Chee Keong Ho
  • , Ming Yuan Cheng
  • , Zhu Duan
  • , Ramamoorthy Rajkumar
  • , Yuanjin Zheng
  • , Wang Ling Goh
  • , Yongxin Guo
  • , Gavin Dawe
  • , Woo Tae Park
  • Minkyu Je

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages185-188
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2012 - Kobe, Japan
Duration: 12 Nov 201214 Nov 2012

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2012
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKobe
Period12/11/1214/11/12

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