Title :
Contactless inductive-operation microcircuits for medical applications
Author :
Talamonti, Luciano ; Porrovecchio, Giulio ; Marotta, Giulio
Author_Institution :
Texas Instrum. Italia SpA, Rieti, Italy
Abstract :
The contactless inductive operation device is a circuit which can operate through inductive coupling for both powering and read/write operation. Neither wires nor battery are required, so a microcircuit that is physically unavailable, as it is when implanted in the human body, can be accessed for operation/information exchange. The only component to be added is one microcoil. A one-chip implementation of the above concepts has already been produced with success for the read operation only. The write operation has still to be verified on a single chip, but it is believed that no major barrier exists.<>
Keywords :
biomedical electronics; integrated circuits; 1-chip circuit; contactless inductive-operation microcircuits; medical electronics; microcoil; read operation; write operation;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.95076
