Integrated Analogue Cmos Circuits and Structures for Heart Rate Detectors and Other Low-Voltage, Low-Power Applications

Integrated Analogue Cmos Circuits and Structures for Heart Rate Detectors and Other Low-Voltage, Low-Power Applications

C383etukansi.kesken.fm Page 1 Wednesday, May 4, 2011 1:58 PM C 383 OULU 2011 C 383 UNIVERSITY OF OULU P.O.B. 7500 FI-90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU FINLAND ACTA UNIVERSITATISUNIVERSITATIS OULUENSISOULUENSIS ACTA UNIVERSITATIS OULUENSIS ACTAACTA SERIES EDITORS TECHNICATECHNICACC Kimmo Lasanen ASCIENTIAE RERUM NATURALIUM Kimmo Lasanen Senior Assistant Jorma Arhippainen INTEGRATED ANALOGUE BHUMANIORA CMOS CIRCUITS AND Lecturer Santeri Palviainen CTECHNICA STRUCTURES FOR HEART Professor Hannu Heusala RATE DETECTORS AND DMEDICA Professor Olli Vuolteenaho OTHER LOW-VOLTAGE, ESCIENTIAE RERUM SOCIALIUM LOW-POWER APPLICATIONS Senior Researcher Eila Estola FSCRIPTA ACADEMICA Director Sinikka Eskelinen GOECONOMICA Professor Jari Juga EDITOR IN CHIEF Professor Olli Vuolteenaho PUBLICATIONS EDITOR Publications Editor Kirsti Nurkkala UNIVERSITY OF OULU, FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING; ISBN 978-951-42-9454-9 (Paperback) UNIVERSITY OF OULU, ISBN 978-951-42-9455-6 (PDF) INFOTECH OULU ISSN 0355-3213 (Print) ISSN 1796-2226 (Online) ACTA UNIVERSITATIS OULUENSIS C Technica 383 KIMMO LASANEN INTEGRATED ANALOGUE CMOS CIRCUITS AND STRUCTURES FOR HEART RATE DETECTORS AND OTHER LOW-VOLTAGE, LOW-POWER APPLICATIONS Academic dissertation to be presented with the assent of the Faculty of Technology of the University of Oulu for public defence in OP-sali (Auditorium L10), Linnanmaa, on 24 May 2011, at 11 a.m. UNIVERSITY OF OULU, OULU 2011 Copyright © 2011 Acta Univ. Oul. C 383, 2011 Supervised by Professor Juha Kostamovaara Reviewed by Professor Andrea Baschirotto Professor Kari Halonen ISBN 978-951-42-9454-9 (Paperback) ISBN 978-951-42-9455-6 (PDF) http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9789514294556/ ISSN 0355-3213 (Printed) ISSN 1796-2226 (Online) http://herkules.oulu.fi/issn03553213/ Cover Design Raimo Ahonen JUVENES PRINT TAMPERE 2011 Lasanen, Kimmo, Integrated analogue CMOS circuits and structures for heart rate detectors and other low-voltage, low-power applications. University of Oulu, Faculty of Technology, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering; University of Oulu, Infotech Oulu, P.O. Box 4500, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland Acta Univ. Oul. C 383, 2011 Oulu, Finland Abstract This thesis describes the development of low-voltage, low-power circuit blocks and structures for portable, battery-operated applications such as heart rate detectors, pacemakers and hearing-aid devices. In this work, the definition for low supply voltage operation is a voltage equal to or less than the minimum supply voltage needed to operate an analogue switch, i.e. VDD(min) ≤ 2VT + Vov, which enables the use of a single cell battery whose polar voltage is 1 – 1.5 V. The targeted power consumption is in a range of microwatts. The design restrictions for analogue circuit design caused by the low supply voltage requirement of the latest and future CMOS process technologies were considered and a few circuit blocks, namely two operational amplifiers, a Gm–C filter and a bandgap voltage reference circuit, were first designed to investigate their feasibility for the above-mentioned low-voltage and low- power environment. Two operational amplifiers with the same target specifications were designed with two different types of input stages, i.e. a floating-gate and a bulk-driven input stage, in order to compare their properties. Based on the experiences collected from the designed circuit blocks, an analogue CMOS preprocessing stage for a heart rate detector and a self-calibrating RC oscillator for clock and resistive/capacitive sensor applications were designed, manufactured and tested. The analogue preprocessing stage for a heart rate detector includes a continuous-time offset- compensated preamplifier with a gain of 40 dB, an 8th-order switched-opamp switched-capacitor bandpass filter, a 32-kHz crystal oscillator and a bias circuit, and it achieves the required performance with a supply voltage range of 1.0 – 1.8 V and a current consumption of 3 μA. The self-calibrating RC oscillator operates with supply voltages of 1.2 – 3.0 V and achieves a tunable frequency range of 0.2 – 150 MHz with a total accuracy of ±1% within a supply voltage range of 1.2 – 1.5 V, a temperature range from -20 to 60 °C and a current consumption of less than 70 μA @ 5 MHz with external high precision resistor and capacitor. The measurement results prove that the developed low-voltage low-power analogue circuit structures can achieve the required performance and therefore be successfully implemented with modern CMOS process technologies with limited supply voltages. Keywords: analogue circuits, heart rate detector, low-power, low-voltage, RC oscillator Lasanen, Kimmo, Integroituja analogisia CMOS-piirejä ja -rakenteita sydämen sykkeen mittaukseen ja muihin matalan käyttöjännitteen pienitehoisiin sovelluksiin. Oulun yliopisto, Teknillinen tiedekunta, Sähkö- ja tietotekniikan osasto; Oulun yliopisto, Infotech Oulu, PL 4500, 90014 Oulun yliopisto Acta Univ. Oul. C 383, 2011 Oulu Tiivistelmä Tämä väitöskirja käsittelee matalan käyttöjännitteen pienitehoisten piirirakenteiden kehittämistä kannettaviin, paristokäyttöisiin sovelluksiin kuten esimerkiksi sykemittareihin, sydämen tahdistimiin ja kuulolaitteisiin. Matalalla käyttöjännitteellä tarkoitetaan jännitettä, joka on pienempi tai yhtäsuuri kuin analogisen kytkimen tarvitsema pienin mahdollinen käyttöjännite, VDD(min) ≤ 2VT + Vov, joka mahdollistaa piirin toiminnan yhdellä paristolla, jonka napajännite on 1 – 1,5 V. Tavoiteltu tehonkulutus on mikrowattiluokkaa. Piirirakenteiden suunnittelussa otettiin huomioon viimeisimpien ja lähitulevaisuuden CMOS- valmistusteknologioiden aiheuttamat matalan käyttöjännitteen erityisvaatimukset ja niiden poh- jalta kehitettiin aluksi kaksi erilaista operaatiovahvistinta, GmC-suodatin, ja bandgap-jännitere- ferenssi. Operaatiovahvistimet toteutettiin samoin tavoitevaatimuksin kahdella eri tekniikalla käyttäen toisen vahvistimen tuloasteessa ns. kelluvahilaisia tulotransistoreita ja toisen tuloastees- sa ns. allasohjattuja tulotransistoreita. Kehitetyistä rakenteista saatujen kokemusten pohjalta suunniteltiin, valmistettiin ja testattiin kaksi erilaista CMOS-teknologialla toteutettua mikropii- riä, jotka olivat analoginen esikäsittelypiiri sydämen sykkeen mittaukseen ja itsekalibroiva RC- oskillaattori resistiivisiin/kapasitiivisiin sensorisovelluksiin. Sydämen sykkeen esikäsittelypiiri sisältää jatkuva-aikaisen, offset-kompensoidun esivahvis- timen, jonka vahvistus on 40 dB, kytketyistä kapasitansseista ja kytketyistä operaatiovahvisti- mista koostuvan kahdeksannen asteen kaistanpäästösuodattimen, 32 kHz kideoskillaattorin ja bias-piirin. Esikäsittelypiiri saavuttaa vaadittavan suorituskyvyn 1,0 – 1,8 V käyttöjännitteellä ja 3 μA virrankulutuksella. Itsekalibroivan RC-oskillaattorin käyttöjännitealue puolestaan on 1,2 – 3,0 V ja käyttökelpoinen taajuusalue 0,2 – 150 MHz. Ulkoista tarkkuusvastusta ja kondensaatto- ria käytettäessä oskillaattori saavuttaa ±1 % tarkkuuden 1,2 – 1,5 V käyttöjännitteillä ja -20 – 60 °C lämpötila-alueella virrankulutuksen jäädessä alle 70 μA @ 5 MHz. Mittaustulokset osoittavat, että kehitetyt matalan käyttöjännitteen pienitehoiset analogiset rakenteet saavuttavat vaadittavan suorituskyvyn ja voidaan näin ollen menestyksekkäästi valmis- taa moderneilla matalan käyttöjännitteen CMOS-teknologioilla. Asiasanat: analogiapiirit, matala käyttöjännite, pienitehoinen, RC-oskillaattori, sykemittari Acknowledgements This thesis is based on research work carried out at the Electronics Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Oulu, during the years 1998–2008. I wish to express my deepest gratitude to Professor Juha Kostamovaara, who has supervised this work, for his encouragement and guidance. I also thank my colleagues for the pleasant working atmosphere and their assistance. My family, relatives and friends deserve my warmest thanks for their patience and support during these years. I wish to thank Professors Andrea Baschirotto and Kari Halonen for examining this thesis and Dr. John Braidwood for revising the English of the manuscript. I would also like to thank Polar Electro, Fincitec, National Semiconductor Finland and Tekes for several interesting research projects, and the foundations Tekniikan edistämissäätiö, Tauno Tönningin säätiö and Seppo Säynäjäkankaan tiedesäätiö for providing direct financial support for this thesis. Oulu, May 2011 Kimmo Lasanen 7 8 List of symbols and abbreviations AAF anti-aliasing filter A/D analogue-to-digital ADC analogue-to-digital converter ASIC application specific integrated circuit ASP analogue signal processing AV atrioventricular BD bulk-driven BGR bandgap reference BJT bipolar junction transistor BPF bandpass filter BW bandwidth C capacitor, capacitance CM common-mode CMFB common-mode feedback CMOS complementary metal-oxide semiconductor CMRR common-mode rejection ratio CMR common-mode range CT continuous-time CP charge pump DAC digital-to-analogue converter DC direct current DCG dynamic current generator DDA differential difference amplifier DR dynamic range DSP digital signal processing DT discrete-time DTL dynamic translinear DTMOS dynamic threshold voltage metal-oxide semiconductor ECG electrocardiograph EEG electroencephalograph EEPROM electrically erasable programmable memory EMG electromyography EOG electro-oculography FD fully-differential FG floating-gate 9 FOM figure of merit GBW gain-bandwidth product Gm transconductor Gm–C transconductor-capacitor HR heart rate

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