An Inductive Power and Data Telemetry Subsystem With Fast Transient Low Dropout Regulator for Biomedical Implants

作者：Lin Yu Po^*; Tang Kea Tiong^*

来源：IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2016, 10(2): 435-444.

DOI：10.1109/TBCAS.2015.2447526

• Bio-implantable subsystem
• fast transient response
• inductive power link
• load-shift keying (LSK)
• low-dropout (LDO) regulator

This paper presents a capacitorless low-dropout (LDO) regulator with fast transient response and data reverse telemetry circuit for fully implantable wireless transmission applications. We propose a novel hybrid feedback structure using high-frequency compensation technology to achieve a rapid transient response for the LDO regulator. To reduce the size of the implant and transmit neural recordings through the same coil without interfering with power transmission, the load-shift-key (LSK) modulation technique is adopted for back data telemetry. The proposed implantable chip, fabricated using commercial 0.18 pm complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology, yielded an output power of 15 mW. Under 1.15 V operation voltage, the maximum overshoot and undershoot voltages were less than 45 mV and 55 mV, respectively, for a 15 mA full-load current whose rising and falling time were less than 100 ns. The proposed LSK transceiver uses a digitized demodulator to improve bandwidth efficiency for low carrier frequency operation.

• 出版日期2016-4
• 单位清华大学