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1 - The big picture

from Section I - Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2010

Rahul Sarpeshkar
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincaré

This book, Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, is about ultra-low-power electronics, bioelectronics, and the synergy between these two fields. On the one hand it discusses how to architect robust ultra-low-power electronics with applications in implantable, noninvasive, wireless, sensing, and stimulating biomedical systems. On the other hand, it discusses how bio-inspired architectures from neurobiology and cell biology can revolutionize low-power, mixed-signal, and radio-frequency (RF) electronics design. The first ten chapters span feedback systems, transistor device physics, noise, and circuit-analysis techniques to provide a foundation upon which the book builds. Chapters that describe ultra-low-power building-block circuits that are useful in biomedical electronics expand on this foundational material, followed by chapters that describe the utilization of these circuits in implantable (invasive) and noninvasive medical systems. Some of these systems include cochlear implants for the deaf, brain implants for the blind and paralyzed, cardiac devices for noninvasive medical monitoring, and biomolecular sensing systems. Chapters that discuss fundamental principles for ultra-low-power digital, analog, and mixed-signal design unify and integrate common themes woven throughout the book. These principles for ultra-low-power design naturally progress to a discussion of systems that exemplify these principles most strongly, namely biological systems.

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Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics
Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-Inspired Systems
, pp. 3 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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Sarpeshkar, R., Salthouse, C. D., Sit, J. J., Baker, M. W., Zhak, S. M., Lu, T. K. T., Turicchia, L. and Balster, S.. An ultra-low-power programmable analog bionic ear processor. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 52 (2005), 711–727.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Avestruz, A. T., Santa, W., Carlson, D., Jensen, R., Stanslaski, S., Helfenstine, A. and Denison, T.. A 5 μW/channel Spectral Analysis IC for Chronic Bidirectional Brain-Machine Interfaces. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 43 (2008), 3006–3024.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sarpeshkar, R.. Analog versus digital: extrapolating from electronics to neurobiology. Neural Computation, 10 (1998), 1601–1638.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sarpeshkar, R. and O'Halloran, M.. Scalable hybrid computation with spikes. Neural Computation, 14 (2002), 2003–2038.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mandal, S., Zhak, S. M. and Sarpeshkar, R.. A bio-inspired active radio-frequency silicon cochlea. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 44 (2009), 1814–1828.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mandal, S. and Sarpeshkar, R., Log-domain circuit models of chemical reactions. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009.Google Scholar

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  • The big picture
  • Rahul Sarpeshkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Book: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics
  • Online publication: 02 December 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841446.001
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  • The big picture
  • Rahul Sarpeshkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Book: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics
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  • The big picture
  • Rahul Sarpeshkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Book: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics
  • Online publication: 02 December 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841446.001
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