Huang, Xiaohua, Ballini, Marco, Wang, Shiwei, Micoli, Beatrice, Van Hoof, Chris, Gielen, Georges, Craninckx, Jan, Van Helleputte, Nick and Lopez, Carolina Mora (2021) A compact, low-power analog front-end with event-driven input biasing for high-density neural recording in 22-nm FDSOI. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. (doi:10.1109/TCSII.2021.3111257).
Abstract
An ultra-small-area, low-power analog front-end (AFE) for high-density neural recording is presented in this paper. It features an 11-bit incremental delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (σ ADC) enhanced with an offset-rejecting event-driven input biasing network. This network avoids saturation of the ADC input caused by leakage of the input-coupling capacitor implemented in an advanced technology node. Combining AC-coupling with direct data conversion, the proposed AFE can tolerate a rail-to-rail electrode offset and achieves a good trade-off between power, noise, bandwidth, input impedance, and area. Fabricated in a 22-nm fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) process, the design occupies an active area of <0.001 mm2, the smallest obtained to this date for a neural AFE, and consumes <3 μW from a 0.8-V supply. It achieves an input-referred noise of 11.3 μVrms in the action potential band (300 Hz -10 kHz) and 10 μVrms in the local field potential band (1 Hz -300 Hz).
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