Design of MICS Band Low Power Transmitter for Implantable Medical Applications

Abstract:

The cyborg can control robotic arm by means of the brain implant. The design of implantable node is critical because the surgically implanted node should consume very low power. In this paper, an efficient CMOS Transmitter in terms of low power is presented for Implantable Medical Devices in the MICS band. The RF front-end transmitter consists of up-conversion mixer and a power amplifier. The designs have been done using Cadence RF Spectre tools with 180 nm technology and the transmitter front-end consumes 900μW for the MICS band.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 984-985)
• Pages: 1223-1228
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.984-985.1223
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: R. Venkateswari*, S. Subha Rani
• Keywords: CMOS Mixer, Folded Mixer, IIP3, Implantable Medical Device (IMD), Power Amplifier, WBAN

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