A Wide Dynamic Range Neural Data Acquisition System with High-Precision Delta-Sigma ADC and On-Chip EC-PC Spike Processor.

A Wide Dynamic Range Neural Data Acquisition System with High-Precision Delta-Sigma ADC and On-Chip EC-PC Spike Processor.

Xu, Jian;Nguyen, Anh Tuan;Wu, Tong;Wenfeng, Zhao;Luu, Diu Khue;Yang, Zhi;
ieee transactions on biomedical circuits and systems 2020
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Abstract

A high-performance, wide dynamic range, fully-integrated neural interface is one key component for many advanced bidirectional neuromodulation technologies. In this paper, to complement the previously proposed frequency-shaping amplifier (FSA) and high-precision electrical microstimulator, we will present a proof-of-concept design of a neural data acquisition (DAQ) system that includes a 15-bit, low-power Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a real-time spike processor based on one exponential component-polynomial component (EC-PC) algorithm. High-precision data conversion with low power consumption and small chip area is achieved by employing several techniques, such as opamp-sharing, multi-bit successive approximation (SAR) quantizer, two-step summation, and ultra-low distortion data weighted averaging (DWA). The on-chip EC-PC engine enables low latency, automatic detection and extraction of spiking activities, thus supporting closed-loop control, real-time data compression and/or neural information decoding. The prototype chip was fabricated in a 0.13μm CMOS process and verified in both bench-top and In-Vivo experiments. Bench-top measurement results indicate the designed ADC achieves a peak signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) of 91.8dB and a dynamic range of 93.0dB over a 10kHz bandwidth, where the total power consumption of the modulator is only 20μW at 1.0V supply, corresponding to a figure-of-merit (FOM) of 31.4fJ/conversion-step. In In-Vivo experiments, the proposed DAQ system has been demonstrated to obtain high-quality neural activities from a rat's motor cortex and also greatly reduce recovery time from system saturation due to electrical microstimulation.

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