A 14.5 μVrms 2.55 μ W Fully Integrated CMOS Preamplifier for
Non-Invasive Wearable Electrocardiogram Sensor Applications
Abstract
In this paper, a noise and power-optimized fully-differential capacitive
feedback CMOS preamplifier circuit is designed using a commercial 0.35
μm CMOS technology node. The designed preamplifier circuit is
part of an analog front-end SoC, which monitors the human
electrocardiogram (ECG) using dry electrodes. The transistors in the
interface circuit are biased in weak inversion region for lower total
input referred noise and power dissipation respectively. With an input
referred noise of 14.5 μ V RMS and 2.55 μW power dissipation, the
resultant preamplifier achieves a gain of 52dB over a bandwidth range of
0.003 Hz to 880 Hz with Noise Efficiency Factor (NEF) of 2.52.