Titre:
Design strategies for wearable sensor interface circuits – from electrodes to signal processing
Conférencier:
Jerald Yoo ,
Dep. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Lieu:
Polytechnique Montréal, Pavillon principal, B-429 ,
Date et heure:
jeudi le 11 janvier 2018 de
10:30 à 12:00
Résumé:
Wearable healthcare sensor provides attractive opportunities for semiconductor sector. The target here is to mitigate the impact of chronic diseases by providing continuous yet adequate low noise monitoring and analysis of physiological signals. However, the wearable environment is challenging for circuit designers due to its unstable skin-electrode interface to begin with. Wet and dry electrodes have significantly different electrical characteristic that needs to be addressed. Also, in such environment, the trade-off between available resource and performance among the components both in analog front-end and in digital back-end is crucial.
This lecture will cover the design strategies of bio interface circuits for such wearable sensors. We will first explore the difficulties, limitations and potential pitfalls in wearable interface and strategies to overcome such issues. After that, system level considerations for better key metrics such as energy efficiency will be introduced. Several state-of-the-art instrumentation amplifiers that emphasize on different parameters will also be discussed. We will then see how the signal analysis part impacts the analog interface circuit design. The lecture will conclude with interesting aspects and opportunities that lie ahead.
Note biographique:
Jerald Yoo (S’05-M’10-SM’15) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Department of Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2002, 2007, and 2010, respectively.
From 2010 to 2016, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where he was an Associate Professor. Since 2017, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has developed low-energy body-area-network (BAN) transceivers and wearable body sensor network using the planar-fashionable circuit board for continuous health monitoring system. He has authored book chapters in Biomedical CMOS ICs (Springer, 2010) and in Enabling the Internet of Things—From Circuits to Networks (Springer, 2017). His current research interests include low-energy circuit technology for wearable bio signal sensors, flexible circuit board platform, BAN transceivers, ASIC for piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (pMUT) and System-on-Chip (SoC) design to system realization for wearable healthcare applications.
Dr. Yoo is the recipient or a co-recipient of several awards: the IEEE International Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2015 Best Paper Award (BioCAS Track), ISCAS 2015 Runner-Up Best Student Paper Award, the Masdar Institute Best Research Award in 2015 and the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) Outstanding Design Awards (2005). He was the Vice Chair of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) United Arab Emirates (UAE) Chapter. Currently, he serves as a Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE A-SSCC, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), and the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Student Research Preview (SRP). He is also an Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee Member of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.