StimDust: A 6.5mm3, wireless ultrasonic peripheral nerve stimulator with 82% peak chip efficiency
2018 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)(2018)
Abstract
We present a 6.5mm
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, 10mg, wireless peripheral nerve stimulator. The stimulator is powered and controlled through ultrasound from an external transducer and utilizes a single 750×750×750μm
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piezocrystal for downlink communication, powering, and readout, reducing implant volume and mass. An IC with 0.06mm
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active circuit area, designed in TSMC 65nm LPCMOS process, converts harvested ultrasound to stimulation charge with a peak efficiency of 82%. A custom wireless protocol that does not require a clock or memory circuits reduces on-chip power to 4μW when not stimulating. The encapsulated stimulator was cuffed to the sciatic nerve of an anesthetized rodent and demonstrated full-scale nerve activation in vivo. We achieve a highly efficient and temporally precise wireless peripheral nerve stimulator that is the smallest and lightest to our knowledge.
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Key words
Stimulation,neuromodulation,peripheral nerve,ultrasound,backscatter,low-power wireless
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