A 0.5-V 250-nW 65-dB SNDR Passive ΔΣ Modulator for Medical Implant Devices

• A  0.5-V  ultra-low-power  second-order  DT  DS  modulator  is  presented  in  this  paper  for  medical  implant  devices.  The  modulator  employs  2nd-order  passive  low-pass filter  and  ultra-low-voltage  building  blocks,  including preamplifier, regenerative comparator, and clock controller, in order  to enable operation near 0.5 V supply. A  low-noise and gain-enhanced  single-stage  preamplifier  is  developed  using  a body-driven technique. Passive filter is gain boosted by power-efficient charge-redistribution amplification  scheme. Designed in  a  65nm CMOS  technology,  the modulator  achieves  65  dB peak SNDR over a 500 Hz signal bandwidth, while it consumes 250 nW  from  a  0.5 V  supply. The modulator  is  functional  at 0.45V and obtains 52 dB SNR, while consuming 200 nW.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Annan elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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