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W6: Analog Techniques for Neural Interfaces

 

14:00 - 17:30

room 10+11

chairs

Carolina Mora Lopez (imec Leuven, BE)

Pieter Harpe (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)

abstract

Implanted electronics performing neural recording or stimulation in the brain or other parts of the nervous system are becoming increasingly important. This workshop will give insight in the limitations stemming from the application and the major technical challenges to be solved. First, an overview is given of the key components and the overall system integration aspects, followed by a review of the main technical hurdles. Next, state-of-the-art solutions for wireless power transfer for implants are presented. After that, the workshop will look at circuits and systems for neural & biopotential recording, neurostimulation and neuromodulation.

program

14:00 - 14:45 ​

Building Neural Interfaces - Key Components, System Integration, and Technical Hurdles

Minkyu Je (KAIST, KR)

14:45 - 15:30​

Wireless Power Transfer for Implants

Stefano Stanzione (imec, NL)

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15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45

Neural and Biopotential Recording Circuits

Jiawei Xu (Fudan University, CN)

16:45 - 17:30

Implantable Integrated Circuits and Systems for Neurostimulation and Neuromodulation

Maurits Ortmanns (University of Ulm, DE)

biosketches

Minkyu Je
Minkyu Je received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from KAIST, Korea. He is now an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, Korea. His research areas are smart sensor interface ICs, ultra-low-power wireless communication ICs, high-efficiency energy supply and management ICs, ultra-low-power timing ICs, resource-constrained computing ICs, as well as microsystem integration leveraging the advanced ICs for emerging applications such as intelligent miniature biomedical devices, ubiquitous wireless sensor nodes, and future mobile devices. He is an editor of 1 book, an author of 6 book chapters, and has more than 390 peer-reviewed international conference and journal publications. He also has more than 70 patents issued or filed. He has served on the TPC for ISSCC, SOVC, and A-SSCC. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Stefano Stanzione

Stefano Stanzione received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pisa in 2006 and 2010, respectively. His Ph.D. work focused on the analog building blocks of passive Ultra-High-Frequency RFID tags. He joined imec in 2010, where he is currently a senior researcher working in the field of power management IC design. Dr. Stanzione was a member of the Analog Technical Program Sub-Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2014 to 2018. His research interests include ultra-low-power circuits for energy harvesting, battery management and wireless powering.

Jiawei Xu

Jiawei Xu received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. From 2006 to 2018, he was with imec/Holst Centre, Eindhoven. In 2018, he joined Fudan University, Shanghai, China, as a faculty member. His research group works on integrated circuits for wearable and implantable medical devices, precision sensor interfaces, and battery power management. He is a TPC member of ISSCC and CICC, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems.

Maurits Ortmanns

Maurits Ortmanns (Senior Member, IEEE) received the degree of Dr.-Ing. from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2004. From 2004 to 2005, he worked at Sci-Worx GmbH, Hannover, Germany, in the area of mixed-signal circuits for biomedical implants. In 2006, he joined the University of Freiburg as an assistant professor. Since 2008, he is a full professor at the University of Ulm, Germany, where he is the director of the Institute of Microelectronics. He is the author of the textbook Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta A/D Conversion, author or co-author of several other book chapters, and over 350 IEEE journal articles and conference papers. He holds many patents. He has served as a program committee member of ISSCC, ESSCIRC, DATE, and ECCTD, as ISSCC EU regional chair, and ISSCC analog subcommittee chair. He has served as an Associate Editor for TCAS, Guest Editor for JSSC, and as a Distinguished Lecturer for SSCS. His research interests include mixed-signal integrated circuit design with special emphasis on data converters and biomedical applications​.

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