A programmable charge pump voltage converter for implantable medical devices in a HV technology

Gak, Joel; Miguez, Matías; Arnaud, Alfredo

doi:10.1109/lascas.2013.6519060

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“…In those implantable devices with therapeutic functions, such as cardiac pacemakers [4,5] , cochlear implants [6] , and brain-machine interfaces [7] , highvoltage electrical pulses with magnitude of several to over 10 V are generated to stimulate the neuron or muscle for a particular purpose of treatment. Since most implantable medical devices are powered by a battery with about 2-V supply voltage, charge pumps are often employed to provide highvoltage power supply or control signals for the pulse generators [8][9][10][11] . In order to provide a life span up to several years for the implantable medical devices, the power efficiency of the charge pump must be as high as possible.…”

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A high-efficiency charge pump in BCD process for implantable medical devices

Zhang

2018

J. Semicond.

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This paper presents a high-efficiency charge pump circuit composed of cascaded cross-coupled voltage doublers implemented in an isolated bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology for implantable medical devices. Taking advantage of the transistor structures in the isolated BCD process, the leakage currents caused by the parasitic PNP transistors in the cross-coupled PMOS serial switches are eliminated by simply connecting the inside substrate terminal to the isolation terminal of each PMOS transistor. The simple circuit structure leads to small parasitic capacitance in the voltage doubler, which in turn ensures high efficiency of the overall charge pump. The proposed charge pump with 5 cascaded voltage doublers is fabricated in a 0.35-μm isolated BCD process. Measurement results with 2-V power supply, 1-MHz driving clock frequency and 40-μA current load show that an efficiency of 72.6% is achieved, and the output voltage can be pumped to about 11.5 V at zero load current. The chip area of the charge pump is 1.6 × 0.35 mm2.

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A high-efficiency charge pump in BCD process for implantable medical devices

Zhang

2018

J. Semicond.

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“…DC/DC converters can be classified into switched capacitor (charge pumps) and switched inductor converters. Charge pumps have been traditionally employed for implantable electronics and other ultra-low-power applications [1,[5][6][7][8] for the sake of simplicity, and because efficiencies close to 90 % or more can be achieved for power consumption in the range of lWatts or less. However, charge pumps regularly require the use of a large number of external capacitors (in the case of efficient micro-power converters), and the output voltage is limited to certain fixed values.…”

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Step down DC/DC converter for micro-power medical applications

Miguez¹,

Arnaud²,

Oliva³

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2015 IEEE 6th Latin American Symposium on Circuits &Amp; Systems (LASCAS)

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In this work, a micropower step down DC/DC converter aimed at reducing the supply voltage in implantable medical devices is presented. The circuit was designed and fabricated in a 0.6 lm technology. The DC/ DC converter was tested for a wide range of input voltages between 1.9 and 5 V, output voltages between 200 mV and 1.5 V, and different load currents between 50 and 200 lA. In all cases the output voltage was regulated with less than 3 % error and 5 % ripple.

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