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. 2008:2008:5881-4.
doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650552.

A 1.2V 1.5 microW 4 kS/s 10b Pipelined ADC for electroencephalogram applications

J M Garcia-Gonzalez  1 , F Munoz, R G Carvajal, E Lopez-Morillo, H Elgmili, E Aguilar-Pelaez
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A 1.2V 1.5 microW 4 kS/s 10b Pipelined ADC for electroencephalogram applications

J M Garcia-Gonzalez et al. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008.

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) for Electroencephalogram (EEG) applications with 10 bits of resolution, 1.2V of supply voltage and only 1.5 microW of power consumption using a standard 0.5 microm CMOS technology. Low-voltage and low-power operation has been achieved using Quasi-Floating-Gate (QFG) based circuits. The use of a new class-AB operational amplifier in weak inversion allows very low power consumption and high enough open loop gain. Simulation results show an energy efficiency of 0.84 pJ per quantization level, placing the converter into the state-of-the-art of low-frequency low-power ADCs.

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