A CMOS high-voltage transmitter IC for ultrasound medical imaging applications

Hyouk Kyu Cha; Dongning Zhao; Jia Hao Cheong; Bin Guo; Hongbin Yu; Minkyu Je

doi:10.1109/TCSII.2013.2258260

A CMOS high-voltage transmitter IC for ultrasound medical imaging applications

Hyouk Kyu Cha, Dongning Zhao, Jia Hao Cheong, Bin Guo, Hongbin Yu, Minkyu Je

Dept. of Electrical and Information Engineering

Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

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Abstract

A high-voltage (HV) transmitter integrated circuit for ultrasound medical imaging applications is implemented using 0.18-μm bipolar/CMOS/DMOS technology. The proposed HV transmitter achieves high integration by only employing standard CMOS transistors in a stacked configuration with dynamic gate biasing circuit while successfully driving the capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer device immersed in an oil environment without breakdown reliability issues. The HV transmitter including the output driver and the voltage level shifters generates over 10-V_p-p pulses at 1.25-MHz frequency and occupies only 0.022 mm² of core die area.

Original language	English
Article number	6508835
Pages (from-to)	316-320
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Volume	60
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2013.2258260
State	Published - 2013

Keywords

Capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer (CMUT)
dynamic gate biasing
high-voltage (HV) transmitter
level shifter
output driver
ultrasound medical imaging

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