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Comparision on Low-Noise Neural Signal
Amplifiers and Design of Current Mirror OTA
for EEG 1Lipika Gupta and
2Amod Kumar
1Chitkara University, India.
2CSIO, Chandigarh.
Abstract In an endless effort for developing new assistive technologies to treat
neural disorders, neural interface technology has seen tremendous
progress. For designing analog front-end in neural interface system, the
Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) design for low frequency neural signals is still
a challenging task. Specific design requirements for neural LNA require a
decent understanding of various topologies used for its implementation.
This paper discusses standard design parameters and their desirable values
for LNA design. A comparison of System-level architecture: Open loop and
Closed-Loop topologies are also presented. A summary of various
strategies is explained based on the improvement in design for low power,
low noise and area. The current mirror OTA with capacitive feedback
topology is simulated using 0.18µm technology node using BSIM3V3 MOS
Transistor Model from Cadence. Using gm/Id methodology for selection
the operating point the transistors, a low noise and low power amplifier
design has been obtained.
Keywords: LNA; Neural amplifier; Input reffered noise; PSRR; NEF;
CMRR; OTA.
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1. Introduction
Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) is the first gain stage of any receiver. While ample
of the research is concentrated on the design of LNA for high frequency
applications, it is much popular for low frequency designs as well. LNA is an
integral part of Neural Recording Microsystem which is used to analyze very
low frequency brain signals [1]. Neurons communicate with each other and
generate neural signals which can be used to analyze the brain activity. The
meticulous monitoring of these signals supported by modern IC technology can
enable persons in locked-in position to use various prosthetic devices effectively.
The most commonly used non-invasive method to record neural activity by
placing electrodes on scalp is Electroencephalography (EEG) (1µV to 100mV)
[2]. Several invasive methods such as electrocorticography (ECoG), intracortical
involve placement of electrically-conductive sharp microelectrodes resting on
the brain tissue are performed inside the body. These electrodes are followed by
the bank of LNAs for signal conditioning and further processing. Fig. 1 shows
the typical components of channel for neural acquisition.
LNABand Pass
FilterVGA BUF ADC
Fig 1: Block diagram neural acquisition channel [3]
Low amplitude Neural signals (5µV to 500µV) are acquired by the probes are
applied at the input of LNA. Pre-amplification is critical as it determines the
overall performance of the acquisition channel. It determines the overall gain,
noise and power performance of the entire system. Consequently, low power
consumption, lesser area and low noise are the desirable characteristics of typical
LNA used in Neural Recording channel. It is also designated as neural amplifier
and terms LNA and neural amplifiers has been used interchangeably. Amplified
neural signals are digitalized or analyzed in the subsequent stages [4]. Band-pass
filter (BPF), variable-gain amplifier (VGA), buffer (BUF), and analog-to-digital
converter (ADC) are the signal processing blocks which further analyze
amplified neural signal for particular application [2].
CMOS technologies and circuit techniques have facilitated the development and
miniaturization of these circuits. Many researchers have contributed to the
development of state of art LNAs for low frequency. The Low-noise and Low-
power amplifier designed by R. Harrison [5] in 2003 is the most important
contribution. Fig. 2 shows the schematic of the LNA with capacitive feedback
and Transconductance amplifier which influence all researchers.
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Fig 2: Low Noise Amplifier for neural signal amplification [5]
Future demands massive integration of multi-channel recoding systems which
can record 100-1000 neurons simultaneously and can be used for non-clinical
applications such as sports and entertainment [6].
This paper presents various design parameters for LNA design and their
desirable values and tradeoffs in Section II. Circuit topology plays the most
important role to achieve the desired parameter values. Section-III discusses
various circuit-level and system-level topologies for Amplifier design. The
implementation of current mirror OTA is discussed in Section-IV.
2. LNA design parameters
The important design parameters, such as noise performance, power
consumption, CMRR and size of LNA have to be considered while designing a
neural recording microsystem. The key design parameters are discussed as
follows [4, 5, 7]:-
A. Input Reffered Noise
At low frequencies, the two main components of noise are: thermal noise and
flicker noise, collectively known as input-referred noise. MOSFET transistors
suffer from low frequency flicker noise which is inversely proportional to the
transistor area and the operating frequency. Therefore, pMOS transistors which
large channel area are used as the amplifier input transistors. The thermal noise
is caused by recording electrodes and amplifier transistors. The amplifier must
have low input referred noise to avoid debasing of neural signals and resolve the
signals for such small amplitude.
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B. Noise Efficiency Factor (NEF)
NEF used to evaluate how efficiently an amplifier uses its bias current to reduce
noise [7].
(1)
where is the input referred noise, k is Boltzmann’s constant (1.38 x 10−23
m2 kg s
−2 K
−1), T is the temperature in Kelvins (body temperature = 310 K), VT
is the thermal voltage (25.9 mV at body temperature), ID is the transistor bias
current, and BW is the -3 dB amplifier bandwidth. Smaller the value of NEF is
desired for more efficient the circuit, low input-referred noise and consuming
small power.
C. Common Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR)
The CMRR of neural amplifier is measurement of its capability to reject
common-mode signals. It is the ratio between the amplitude of the common-
mode signal to the amplitude of an equivalent differential signal [8]. Power-line
interference from ac sources and other common-mode signals will appear at the
amplifier output if the CMRR of the amplifier is low. Thus high value of
CMRR is desired for neural amplifiers.
D. Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR)
Due to very small amplitude of neural signals, the supply voltage variations and
fluctuations have to be rejected for proper amplification. These variations are
significantly larger than the neural signal. High PSRR of the amplifier will
amplify the input neural signal rather than the power supply variations.
In addition to above design parameters, Dynamic range, input impedance,
bandwidth and area are other important parameters for LNA design. Table-1
summarizes standard values of these design parameters [4, 6].
3. Design of Neural Amplifiers
Neural amplifier which can achieve the above mentioned characteristics can
be designed using wide variety of techniques. However design tradeoffs of
microelectronic systems obstruct the simultaneous improvement of all the
parameters. Nevertheless the objective is to develop efficient neural interfaces
for examining brain activity in an improved manner. The designs can be
categorized broadly in two ways: Circuit-level architecture and System-level
architecture [9]. In Fig. 1, the design of transconductance amplifier deals with
circuit-level architecture and the use of this circuit-topology for implementation
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of front-end amplifier as Open-Loop or Closed-loop amplifiers is the System-
level architecture.
Table-1: Standard values of Design parameters
Design
Factor
Typical
Range Comments
1 -
5µVrms
Sufficiently low to
resolve signals of
smaller magnitude
Dynamic
Range
40-120
dB
Sufficient
dynamic range to
convey signals of
1-2mV
Input
impedance
100MΩ-
10TΩ
Higher than the
electrode tissue
interface
Bandwidth 0.1-
10kHz
Amplification of
low frequency
bio-signals
Area 0.1-10
cm2
Minimum Area
CMRR
60-120
dB
High to minimize
the interference
from 50/60Hz
power line
PSRR 40-80
dB
High to reject
noise form power
supply
NEF 2-6 Lower the NEF
better is the design
E. Circuit-level architecture:
For Implementing Low Noise and Low power Operational Transconductance
Amplifier (OTA) topologies are used. OTA is a voltage input and current output
amplifier. The transconductance gm is proportional to the iDS drain current and
increases the current efficiency of the amplifier [5]. Fig. 3 shows the schematic
of current mirror OTA used in neural amplifier in Fig.2 as introduced by R.
Harrison. The same has been used for implementation in 180nm technology
node described in Section IV. In this the sub-threshold operation of the input
pMOS transistors is preferred where gm is proportional to the square root of the
drain current, resulting low power and low-bandwidth characteristics which are
well suited for biomedical applications.
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The Drain current iDS, transconductance gm, and Unity –gain frequency ft in
weak inversion region are as follows:
Researchers have exploited different types of OTAs such as two stage Millar
OTA, Current mirror OTA, Folded cascode OTA and telescopic OTAs for
improvement in the design parameters. For low noise design current mirror
OTA [10-13] and two stage opamp [11-13] are most widely used. For low
power design folded cascode, telescopic cascode, fully differential self-biased
OTAs are most widely used.
Fig 3: Current mirror OTA for Neural amplifier [5]
F. System-level Arhitecture:
The above stated circuit topologies for can be used for implementation of neural
amplifier for enhancing the design parameters. Different system-level
topologies such as open-loop, capacitive feedback, active feedback, adaptive
feedback topologies ruminate in the change of the characteristics of neural
amplifiers for low frequency input signal. A typical three-opamp
Instrumentation amplifier is suitable for achieving large input impedance, large
CMRR and sufficient gain [6]. However, it consumes large power and area.
Similarly open loop neural amplifiers achieve better noise performance at the
cost of linearity and reduced PSRR. Thus a clear insight of these architectures is
imperative in order to design neural amplifier for a particular application. Open-
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loop and closed-loop (capacitive feedback) topologies are discussed below and
a brief comparison is provided for various designs available till date.
Open-Loop Topology:
Nonexistence of feedback loop leads to lesser number of circuit components in
Open-loop topology. Thus low power consumption is the integral property. At
the same time, open loop topology suffers from inaccuracy in gain due to
process-voltage-temperature (PVT) [14]. According to [14] open loop also
introduces larger offset than closed loop amplifiers. However, proper
compensation and design strategy can overcome these disadvantages. The
design purposed is shown in Fig. 4.
The fully differential OTA using Gm - Gm architecture was designed on 130nm
1P8M CMOS technology and show more promising results when compared
with [5]. In addition, [15] used the circuit shown in Fig. 5. The strategy to
reuse current and restrict the number of current braches reduced power and
noise in the circuit. Excellent power efficiency is received at the expense of
linearity and gain accuracy.
Fig 4: Open-loop LNA [14]
Fig. 5: Schematic of Neural amplifier in Open-loop topology [15]
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Following table compares the standard parameters of the [14], [15] and [5]. This
is apparent that the open-loop topology used in [14] is most promising in terms
of NEF, PSRR and gain.
Table 2: Comparison of Design parameters of Open-loop topologies
Design
Factor [14]
[15] [5]
Technology 0.13µm 0.5µm 1.5µm
VDD (in V) 1.5 1-5 2.5
Gain (in
dB) 37
36.1 40
(µVrms) 5.5
3.6 2.2
Dynamic
Range -
- 69 dB
Bandwidth 5 Hz -
7kHz
0.3Hz -
4.7k Hz
.025
Hz-
7.2kHz
Area - 0.46mm2 .16mm
2
NEF 2.58 1.8 4.0
PSRR 67dB 5.5 dB 85 dB
1) Capacitive-Feedback Tolpology:
As shown in Fig. 2, Capacitive feedback topology is most extensively
borrowed model from last two decades. In the original model, diode-connected
PMOS (Pseudo-Resistor) Ma, Mb, Mc and Md and small capacitor C1 and C2 craft
low pass response for neural amplifiers. The researchers have been making effort
to design more energy efficient neural amplifiers so that thousands of such
amplifiers can be used in muti-electrode systems. [16] is an important
contribution for micropower design. The design uses the same circuit as in Fig. 1
followed by Band-pass filter stage to shape the passband of the amplifier. With
the addition of this BPF the amplifier can record neural signals of < 1Hz-1kHz
frequencies which includes spikes as well. For achieving low power, instead of
using current mirror OTA, modified folded cascode circuit topology has been
used [16]. Current in each branch is scaled by different W/L ratio of transistor in
each branch. This technique leads to the significant reduction in power of the
circuit refer Fig 6.
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Fig. 6: Schematic of Low power Folded Cascode OTA [16]
In another approach to reduce power and area for muti-electrode neural
amplifiers, partial OTA sharing is used [17]. The array of n neural amplifiers,
same as in Fig.2, is used with minor modifications. The vref voltage and C1 is
shared with all n-amplifiers in array, hence leading to lower area and power as
compared to array n individual amplifiers design. However, this design reports
cross talk between channels which is required to be addressed properly. An ultra-
low power Bio-potential amplifier reported in [18] compares three amplifiers
based on different circuit-level topologies of OTAs and single ended and
differential output of the amplifier. A closed-loop fully complementary-input
differential amplifier is designed with improved power-noise performance. The
design parameters are also compared with [5] and are highlighted in Table 3 as
well. The further improvement in design of neural amplifiers has also been
reported in terms of change in on-chip pseudo-resistance implementations [6, 22]
Fig. 7 (a) and modifications feedback capacitor (C2) network [19] Fig. 7 (b).
These modifications lead to low area and low noise design of neural amplifier.
(a)
(b)
Fig 7: (a) Pseudo-resistor outward and inward connected gates, balanced
tunable with wider linear range [6], (b) T-type single ended capacitive
coupled amplifier [19]
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Most recent trend is towards designing amplifiers which not only amplify neural
signals, but can be reconfigured for amplification of other Bio-signals signals as
well. Floating gate transistors have ability to be programmed have been used in
[20, 21] to make bio-sensing amplifier that meets the stringent requirements in
neural recording applications. A standard fully differential capacitive feedback
topology is adopted for reconfigurable design [20] and gate balanced
reconfigurable pseudo-resistors are used [21]. Fig. 8 shows the schematic used
for reconfigurable design. The detailed comparison of this configuration with
others is given in Table 3.
Fig. 8: Floating-gate OTA employed in reconfigurable Bio-potential amplifier [20,21]
Table 3: Comparison of Design parameters of Capacitive-feedback topologies
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4. Implementation of Current Mirror Ota Using Capacitive Feedback Toplogy
This section shows the employment of capacitive feedback topology on Current
Mirror OTA (Fig.2 & Fig.3) [5]. The circuit has been simulated using 0.18µm
technology node using BSIM3V3 MOS Transistor Model from Cadence. The
design suitable for amplification of very low amplitude and frequency signals
such as EEG and neural spikes. The values of C1, C2 and CL were set at 20pF,
200fF and 5opF to obtain the gain of 40dB. C1 and C2 set the midband gain
AM=C1/C2, the bandwidth was approximated by gm/(AMCL) to 10kHz. The
schematic of Current mirror is same as Fig.2. The bias current is kept 100nA to
accommodate lower bandwidth and hence low value of gm. The drain current of
50nA flows through the devices M1- M8. Using gm/Id method [23] and
mentioned value of drain current, the W/L ratio of each transistor is calculated
for the desired operating point. For low noise operation the W/L ratio of input
pmos transistors was kept high and thus operates in sub-threshold region.
Fig.8 shows the gm/Id plot for pmos transistor for different values of Inversion
coefficient (IC) and the operating region for the device. The Inversion
Coefficient (IC) [5] for all devices expressed as:
(5)
where ID is the drain current and Is is moderate inversion current given by:
(6)
where VT is the thermal voltage (25.9 mV at body temperature), κ is the sub-
threshold gate coupling coefficient having a typical value of 0.7 [4,5].
Fig.8: gm/Id Vs Inversion coefficient plot for pmos transistor
1.00
10.00
0.00001 0.001 0.1 10
Tra
nsc
on
du
cta
ceE
ffic
ien
cy, g
m/I
D
Inversion Coefficient, IC=ID/IS
gm/Id
Weak
Inversion
Strong
Inversion
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The calculated W/L values are further optimized for low power and low noise to
obtain the desired gain as close as possible considering the tradeoffs. Table 4
shows the operating conditions and W/L ratios of all the transistors in the circuit.
Table 4: Operating points of OTA transistors Device W/L(µm) ID (nA) IC gm/ID (V-1) Operating region
M1, M2 74/0.36 50.0 0.07 25.3 Sub-threshold
M3, M4, M5, M6 0.42/8.9 50.0 2.27 12.9 Moderate
M7, M8 0.24/1.8 50.0 3 11.7 Moderate
M9, M10 0.24/0.36 100.0 0.21 22.8 Moderate
McasN 0.42/2.7 50.0 0.68 27.87 Sub-threshold
McasP 0.24/.45 50.0 0.17 23.42 Sub-threshold
The simulated value of the gain of the amplifier is shown Fig. 9. The maximum
gain obtained is 38.02dB and the obtained bandwidth is from 0.1Hz to 5.01 kHz.
Fig.9: gm/Id Vs Inversion coefficient plot for pmos transistor
The standard design parameters of the circuit is compared with [5] and [22] in
Table 5. The results show the improvement in terms of gain and noise. The total
power consumed by the circuit is 593.5nW.
Table 4: Comparison of Simulated design parameters with similar OTAs Design
Factor [5] [22] [This work]
Technology 1.5µm 0.18µm 0.18µm
VDD (in V) 2.5 0.8 1.8
Gain (in dB) 40 31.7 38.04
(µVrms) 2.2 5.62 5.01
Bandwidth .025Hz-
7.2kHz 3-164Hz
0.1Hz-5.01
kHz
NEF 4.0 6.33 4.22
CMRR 88 dB Not
mentioned 70dB
PSRR 85 dB 54 dB 55dB
1
20
0.10 1.00 10.00 100.00 1,000.00 10,000.00
Ga
in (
dB
)
Frequency (Hz)
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5. Discussion
The future neural prosthetic devices demand better reliability, long life and
perfect biocompatibility. Thus non-invasive methods of neural signal
acquisition require better amplifiers. For designing of improved amplifiers
particularly for non-invasive methods like EEG, better understanding of the
various existing neural amplifiers is required. The purpose of doing this
comparison is to understand various design parameters involved for designing
neural amplifiers and the desirable values. From these specifications, circuit-
level topologies are discussed in brief. Open-loop and capacitive-feedback type
system-level architecture is discussed in more details. Open-loop circuits
provide better noise performance whereas capacitive feed is most popular
topology. Recent research is focused on capacitive feedback topology using
reconfigurable floating gate OTA based design. It is evident that the complexity
of neural recording microsystems is increasing while its effective size is
decreasing. Hence low power and low noise design is a challenging task.
6. Conclusion
This paper described that design of LNA is most significant task of Neural
recording microsystem. We presented various design parameters and their
desirable values for Neural signal amplification. Some main OTA designs for
circuit-level architecture are highlighted; the most common one is the current-
mirror OTA. System-level architecture is described for Open-loop and
capacitive feedback topologies. Some main techniques for low-power, low-
noise designs are: implementation of Pseudo-resistors, modification in the
feedback network capacitor, use of partial OTA in n-array implementation,
using floating gate transistors for reconfigurable designs. In an effort to make
low noise and low power neural amplifier, Current Mirror OTA is simulated
using 0.18µm technology node using BSIM3V3 MOS Transistor Model from
Cadence. The W/L ratios are optimized to for improved gain of 38.04dB,
NEF=4.22 and input referred noise of 5.01 µVrms. Thus it can be concluded the
design is suitable for amplification of low amplitude and low frequency
biomedical signals. Improvements in Integrated Circuit technology and design
optimization will continue to enhance the design of LNA for better clinical and
non-clinical applications.
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