Electronics, Communication & Automation Technology

Implantable Analog Front-End with High PSRR and CMRR for Neural Signal Acquisition

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  • School of Electronic and Information Engineering , South China University of Technology , Guangzhou 510640 ,Guangdong , China
吴朝晖(1971-),男,博士,副教授,主要从事模数混合及模拟芯片设计研究 .

Received date: 2014-03-19

  Revised date: 2014-10-16

  Online published: 2014-12-01

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Supported by the PhD Start-up Fund of Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province ( 2014A030310372 )

Abstract

As the in vivo electroneurographic signals are weak with high noise and strong environment interference , an implantable low-noise analog front-end with high power supply rejection ratio ( PSRR ) and com-mon mode rejection ratio ( CMRR ) for neural signal acquisition is proposed. Fully differential structure is used to design the preamplifier , switch capacitor filter and variable gain amplifier of the analog front-end. Chopper stabilization technology is used to reduce the low-frequency noise and a ripple reduction loop with current DAC is used to reduce the output ripple. In this way , the proposed analog front-end can achieve high PSRR and CMRR without increasing the original low noise. Moreover , a front-end chip is designed via 0.18μm CMOS technology and is used for simulation. The results of layout show that ( 1 ) input-referred noise of the analog front-end is 2.6μV at the interval of 0.1Hz~10kHz ;( 2 ) the gain of the analog front-end can switch among 46.35 , 52.18 , 60.02 and 66.95dB ; and ( 3 ) the CMRR and PSRR of the analog front-end are respectively 146 and 108 dB. Thus , it draws the conclusion that the proposed analog front-end is suitable for neural signal acquisition.

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Wu Zhao-hui Xie Yu-zhi Zhao Ming-jian Li Bin . Implantable Analog Front-End with High PSRR and CMRR for Neural Signal Acquisition[J]. Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science), 2015 , 43(1) : 15 -20 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2015.01.003

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