Research by the
low-power medical electronics group at IMSE spans several fields, ranging from micro-electrode arrays and integrated sensing / read-out circuitry for detection and recording of neuronal signals, to the design and silicon realization of wearable electronic devices, as well as to the design of efficient wireless interfaces to intelligent medical devices (IMD). The common denominator in many of these research activities is the need to achieve high precision, low-noise analog readout with very low power dissipation, in order to enable solutions where the entire system is powered through limited battery capacity and/or scavenged power, exclusively. In parallel to this, the design of very small and low-cost sensors and the corresponding read-out electronics is needed for diagnostic purposes, in next generation bio-medical systems.