IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

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Keywords

System On Chip, Transistors, Voltage Control, Regulators, Linearity, Electrodes, Mirrors, Charge Balancing, Neural Stimulator, Proportional Integral PI Controller

Abstract

This brief presents a 15-channel, 30-V, implantable current stimulator for restoring locomotion control after spinal cord injuries. The stimulator features performance specifications comparable to those of large desktop instrumentation: high linearity, high precision of the delivered currents, small channel-to-channel mismatches, and a fast settling time of Z_$0.3~\mu \text{s}$_Z . An analog-to-digital converter-based active charge balancing scheme using a digital proportional–integral controller was implemented in firmware.
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