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A compact chopper stabilized Δ-ΔΣ neural readout IC with input impedance boosting

A compact chopper stabilized Δ-ΔΣ neural readout IC with input impedance boosting
A compact chopper stabilized Δ-ΔΣ neural readout IC with input impedance boosting
This paper presents a scalable neural recording analog front-end architecture enabling simultaneous acquisition of action potentials, local field potentials, electrode DC offsets and stimulation artifacts without saturation. By combining a DC-coupled - architecture with new bootstrapping and chopping schemes, the proposed readout IC achieves an area of 0.0077 mm2 per channel, an input-referred noise of 5.53 ± 0.36 µVrms in the action potential band and 2.88 ± 0.18 µVrms in the local field potential band, a dynamic range of 77 dB, an electrode-DC-offset tolerance of ±70 mV and an input impedance of 663 M. To validate this neural readout architecture, we fabricated a 16-channel proof of-concept IC and validated it in an in vitro setting, demonstrating the capability to record extracellular signals even when using small, high-impedance electrodes. Because of the small area achieved, this architecture can be used to implement ultra-high-density neural probes for large-scale electrophysiology
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Wang, Shiwei
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Wang, Shiwei, Ballini, Marco, Yang, Xiaolin, Sawigun, Chutham, Weijers, Jan-Willem, Biswas, Dwaipayan, Van Helleputte, Nick and Lopez, Carolina Mora (2021) A compact chopper stabilized Δ-ΔΣ neural readout IC with input impedance boosting. IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS).

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This paper presents a scalable neural recording analog front-end architecture enabling simultaneous acquisition of action potentials, local field potentials, electrode DC offsets and stimulation artifacts without saturation. By combining a DC-coupled - architecture with new bootstrapping and chopping schemes, the proposed readout IC achieves an area of 0.0077 mm2 per channel, an input-referred noise of 5.53 ± 0.36 µVrms in the action potential band and 2.88 ± 0.18 µVrms in the local field potential band, a dynamic range of 77 dB, an electrode-DC-offset tolerance of ±70 mV and an input impedance of 663 M. To validate this neural readout architecture, we fabricated a 16-channel proof of-concept IC and validated it in an in vitro setting, demonstrating the capability to record extracellular signals even when using small, high-impedance electrodes. Because of the small area achieved, this architecture can be used to implement ultra-high-density neural probes for large-scale electrophysiology

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Accepted/In Press date: 14 September 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 September 2021
Published date: 21 September 2021

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Local EPrints ID: 451625
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/451625
ISSN: 2644-1349
PURE UUID: c4f28bb4-e38f-46ba-baaa-7c68c35e23d8
ORCID for Shiwei Wang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5450-2108

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Date deposited: 14 Oct 2021 16:33
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 06:50

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Author: Shiwei Wang ORCID iD
Author: Marco Ballini
Author: Xiaolin Yang
Author: Chutham Sawigun
Author: Jan-Willem Weijers
Author: Dwaipayan Biswas
Author: Nick Van Helleputte
Author: Carolina Mora Lopez

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