A precise charge balancing and compliance voltage monitoring stimulator front-end for 1024-electrodes retinal prosthesis

Hosung Chun, Nhan Tran, Yuanyuan Yang, Omid Kavehei, Shun Bai, Stan Skafidas

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a precise charge balancing and compliance voltage monitoring stimulator front-end for 1024-electrode retinal prosthesis. Our stimulator is based on current mode stimulation. To generate a precisely matched biphasic current pulse, a dynamic current copying technique is applied at the stimulator front-end. A compliance voltage monitoring circuitry is included at the stimulator front-end to detect if a voltage across electrode-tissue interface goes beyond a predefined compliance voltage. Simulation results show the mismatch of a biphasic current pulse (at a maximum stimulation current of 476μA) is less than 0.1%. Also, the stimulator issues alarm signals, when a voltage compliance occurs during stimulation due to high tissue impedance. Our stimulator is implemented using a 65nm low voltage (LV) CMOS process, which helps reducing implementation area and power consumption.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2012
Pages3001-3004
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2012 - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: 28 Aug 20121 Sept 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

Conference34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period28/08/121/09/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Health Informatics

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