Fully Implantable Cochlear Implant Interface Electronics With 51.2-mu W Front-End Circuit

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2019-07-01

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Ulusan, Hasan
Chamanian, Salar
Ilik, Bedirhan
Muhtaroglu, Ali
Külah, Haluk

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This paper presents an ultralow power interface circuit for a fully implantable cochlear implant (FICI) system that stimulates the auditory nerves inside cochlea. The input sound is detected with a multifrequency piezoelectric (PZT) sensor array, is signal-processed through a front-end circuit module, and is delivered to the nerves through current stimulation in proportion to the sound level. The front-end unit reduces the power dissipation by combining amplification and compression of the sensor output through an ultralow power logarithmic amplifier. The amplified signal is envelope detected, and fed to a voltage-controlled current source as a reference for stimulation current generation. The single channel performance has been tested with a thin film pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) PZT sensor for sound levels between 60- and 100-dB sound pressure level (SPL). The proposed front-end signal conditioning unit, which can support different back-end stimulators, dissipates only 25.4 and 51.2 mu W based on measurement, for 1- and 8-channel operation, respectively. This represents the lowest in the literature. The interface generates linear stimulation current of 110-430 mu A for the given sound range. The single-channel and eight-channel stimulator consume 105 and 691 mu W, respectively, for 110-mu A biphasic stimulation current.

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Ultralow power, Piezoelectric (PZT) sensor, Neural stimulation, Logarithmic amplifier (LA), Hearing loss, Fully implantable cochlear implant (FICI)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/46984

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS

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https://doi.org/10.1109/tvlsi.2019.2898873

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H. Ulusan, S. Chamanian, B. Ilik, A. Muhtaroglu, and H. Külah, “Fully Implantable Cochlear Implant Interface Electronics With 51.2-mu W Front-End Circuit,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, pp. 1504–1512, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/46984.