64 channel neural recording amplifier with tunable bandwidth in 180 nm CMOS technology

• Autorzy: Gryboś P. , Kmon P. , Żołądź M. , Szczygieł R. , Kachel M. , Lewandowski M. , Błasiak T.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper presents the design and measurements of low-noise multichannel front-end electronics for recording extra-cellular neuronal signals using microelectrode arrays. The integrated circuit contains 64 readout channels and is fabricated in CMOS 180 nm technology. A single readout channel is built of an AC coupling circuit at the input, a low-noise preamplifier, a band-pass filter and a second amplifier. In order to reduce the number of output lines, the 64 analog signals from readout channels are multiplexed to a single output by an analog multiplexer. The chip is optimized for low noise and good matching performance and has the possibility of passband tuning. The low cut-off frequency can be tuned in the 1 Hz - 60 Hz range while the high cut-off frequency can be tuned in the 3.5 kHz - 15 kHz range. For the nominal gain setting at 44 dB and power dissipation per single channel of 220 žW, the equivalent input noise is in the range from 6 žV - 11 žV rms depending on the band-pass filter settings. The chip has good uniformity concerning the spread of its electrical parameters from channel to channel. The spread of the gain calculated as standard deviation to mean value is about 4.4% and the spread of the low cut-off frequency set at 1.6 Hz is only 0.07 Hz. The chip occupies 5×2.3 mm⊃2 of silicon area. To our knowledge, our solution is the first reported multichannel recording system which allows to set in each recording channel the low cut-off frequency within a single Hz with a small spread of this parameter from channel to channel. The first recordings of action potentials from the thalamus of the rat under urethane anesthesia are presented.

Słowa kluczowe

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neurobiological measurements; low noise amplifier; neural recording; band-pass filter; multichannel ASIC

• Wydawca: Komitet Metrologii i Aparatury Naukowej PAN
• Czasopismo: Metrology and Measurement Systems
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: Vol. 18, nr 4
• Strony: 631--643
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 21 poz., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

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Gryboś P.

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Kmon P.

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Żołądź M.

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Szczygieł R.

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Kachel M.

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Lewandowski M.

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Błasiak T.

• AGH Univeristy of Science and Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics, Department of Measurement and Instrumentation, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland,

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