Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7454-7
DOI :
10.1109/APCCAS.2010.5774828
