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    Poster
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    Yu Wu Headshot
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    Yu Wu
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    University College London
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    Abstract

    This paper presents a stimulator for a cardiac neuroprosthesis aiming to restore the parasympathetic control after heart transplantation. The stimulator is based on time-to-current conversion, instead of the conventional current mode digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that drives the output current mirrors. It uses a DAC based on capacitor charging to drive a power efficient voltage-to-current converter for output. The stimulator uses 1.8 V for system operation and 10 V for stimulation. The total power consumption is I_stim×10 V+18.4 μW during the biphasic current output, with a maximum I_stim of 512 μA. The stimulator was designed in CMOS 0.18 μm technology and post-layout simulations are presented.

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    • A Power Efficient Time-to-Current Stimulator for Vagal-Cardiac Connection After Heart Transplantation (application/pdf)