TD-BPQBC: A 1.8μW 5.5mm3 ADC-less Neural Implant SoC utilizing 13.2pJ/Sample Time-domain Bi-phasic Quasi-static Brain Communication
Untethered miniaturized wireless neural sensor nodes with data transmission and energy harvesting capabilities call for circuit and system-level innovations to enable ultra-low energy deep implants for brain-machine interfaces. Realizing that the energy and size constraints of a neural implant motivate highly asymmetric system design (a small, low-power sensor and transmitter at the implant, with a relatively higher power receiver at a body-worn hub), we present Time-Domain Bi-Phasic Quasi-static Brain Communication (TD- BPQBC), offloading the burden of analog to digital conversion (ADC) and digital signal processing (DSP) to the receiver. The input analog signal is converted to time-domain pulse-width modulated (PWM) waveforms, and transmitted using the recently developed BPQBC method for reducing communication power in implants. The overall SoC consumes only 1.8{\mu}W power while sensing and communicating at 800kSps. The transmitter energy efficiency is only 1.1pJ/b, which is >30X better than the state-of-the-art, enabling a fully-electrical, energy-harvested, and connected in-brain sensor/stimulator node.
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