A low-power remotely-programmable MCU for implantable medical devices

Author

Zhang, Xiaoyu ; Jiang, Hanjun ; Zhu, Binjie ; Chen, Xinkai ; Zhang, Chun ; Wang, ZhiHua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

31

Abstract

This paper presents a low-power MCU with remotely-programmable feature which is specifically optimized for implantable medical devices (IMDs). In medical applications the most critical requirements are low-power, energy-efficient, flexible, etc., which are provided by utilizing the techniques such as clock gating, power gating, instruction set improvement, DMA optimizations for data paths. The MCU has been verified correctly and fabricated with a scale of 79.1K equivalent gates, in standard 0.18μm CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomedical electronics; flexible electronics; low-power electronics; microcontrollers; prosthetics; DMA optimization; clock gating; data path; equivalent gates; flexible electronics; implantable medical devices; instruction set improvement; low-power electronics; low-power remotely-programmable MCU; power gating; standard CMOS technology; Energy efficiency; Monitoring; Radio frequency; Software; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7454-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCCAS.2010.5774828

Filename

5774828