{"title":"Analog Front End Low Noise Amplifier in 0.18-\u00b5m CMOS for Ultrasound Imaging Applications ","authors":"Haridas Kuruveettil, Dongning Zhao, Cheong Jia Hao, Minkyu Je ","volume":81,"journal":"International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering","pagesStart":1168,"pagesEnd":1173,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/16654","abstract":"
We present the design of Analog front end (AFE) low noise pre-amplifier implemented in a high voltage 0.18-µ<\/em>m CMOS technology for a three dimensional ultrasound bio microscope (3D UBM) application. The fabricated chip has 4X16 pre-amplifiers implemented to interface a 2-D array of high frequency capacitive micro-machined ultrasound transducers (CMUT). Core AFE cell consists of a high-voltage pulser in the transmit path, and a low-noise transimpedance amplifier in the receive path. Proposed system offers a high image resolution by the use of high frequency CMUTs with associated high performance imaging electronics integrated together. Performance requirements and the design methods of the high bandwidth transimpedance amplifier are described in the paper. A single cell of transimpedance (TIA) amplifier and the bias circuit occupies a silicon area of 250X380 µ<\/em>m2<\/sup> and the full chip occupies a total silicon area of 10x6.8 mm².<\/p>\r\n","references":"[1]\tWoonggyu Jung, Jeehyun Kim,. Mansik Jeon, Eric J. Chaney, Charles N. Stewart, and Stephen A. Boppart, \"Handheld Optical Coherence Tomography Scanner for Primary care Diagnostics,\" IEEE Transaction on Biomedical engineering, Vol.58, No.3, March2011.\r\n[2]\tIra 0. Wygant, Xuefeng Zhuang, David T. Yeh, Omar Oralkan, A. Sanli Ergun, Mustafa Karaman, Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub,\" Integration of 2D CMUT Arrays with Front-End Electronics for Volumetric Ultrasound Imaging,\" IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics,Ferroelcteronics, and Frequency control, Vol. 55. No.2, February 2008.\r\n[3]\tX. Cheng, D. F. Lemmerhirt, 0. D. Kripfgans, M. Zhang, C. Yang, C.A. Rich, and J. B. Fowlkers,\"CMUT-IN_CMOS Ultrasonic Transducer Arrays with on-chip electronics,\" IEEE Solid-state Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems conference, 2009, pages 1222-1225.\r\n[4]\tXiwei Huang, Hyouk-Kyu Cha, Dongning Zhao, Bin Guo, Minkyu Je, Hao Yu \"Transimpedance Amplifier for Integrated 3D Ultrasound Biomicroscope Applications\" World Academy of Science Engineering and technology 69 2012.\r\n[5]\tDongning Zhao, Meng Tong Tan, Hyouk_Kyu Cha, Jinli Qu, Yan Mei, Hao Yu, Arindam Basu, Minkyu Je,\"High\u2014Voltage pulser for ultrasound imaging,\" IEEE International symposium on Integrated Circuits(ISIC) 2011, Dec 2011.\r\n[6]\tGokce Gurun, Jaime S. Zahorian, Alper Sisman, Mustafa Karman, Paul E. Hasler and F. Levent, \" IEEE Transaction on Biomedical circuits and systems, Vol. 6,No. 5, October2012.\r\n[7]\tGokce Gurun, Paul E. Hasler and F. Levent,\" Front-End Receiver Electronics For High Frequency Monolithic CMUT-on-CMOS Imaging arrays,\" IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelcteronics, and Frequency control, Vol. 58. No.8, August 2011.\r\n[8]\tDipankar Nag, Jia Hao Cheong, and Je Minkyu,\" Low noise Low power Preamplifier for Integrated Ultrasound needle Intervention application,\" International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, Vol. 3, January 2013.","publisher":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology","index":"Open Science Index 81, 2013"}