Activity Dependent Multichannel ADC Architecture using Level Crossing Quantisation for Atrial Electrogram Recording

Aurojyoti Das, Samprajani Rout, Alessandro Urso, Wouter A. Serdijn

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel multichannel level-crossing (MLC) ADC architecture aimed at recording atrial electrograms from multiple channels. The proposed architecture combines synchronous sampling with level-crossing (LC) quantisation to achieve activity dependent operation while recording from multiple channels simultaneously. In the proposed architecture the number of comparisons performed by the quantiser to reach a decision is dependent on the activity of the input signal and is 2-3.3 times lower than that in a conventional SAR ADC. The architecture uses one comparator and one reference level instead of two comparators and two reference levels as in conventional LC ADCs. The proposed architecture is modeled in VerilogA and is designed to be implemented in a standard 0.18 um CMOS process. The MLC ADC converts signals from 4 channels simultaneously and achieves an SFDR of 53.33 dB and an SNDR of 48.96 dB while consuming 9.32 μW of power from a 1.8 V power supply.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBioCAS 2019 - Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509006175
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2019
Event2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2019 - Nara, Japan
Duration: 17 Oct 201919 Oct 2019

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNara
Period17/10/1919/10/19

Keywords

  • asynchronous
  • atrial electrogram
  • biosignal acquisition
  • event-driven
  • level crossing
  • multichannel LC ADC

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