HUMAN++ Program at IMEC and Analog Signal Processing for Portable Medical Electronics

Chris Van Hoof, Program Director Systems-in-a-Package and Smart Implants, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Refet Firat Yazicioglu, R&D Team Leader, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

 

Analog front-end circuit design for bio-medical electronics has been long accepted as the integration of precision components with powerful DSP modules. Together with the shift of interest from data centric signal monitoring towards patient centric signal monitoring, this definition has changed dramatically putting stringent constraints on the power budgets of building blocks. This talk will target these constraints and challenges from analog circuit design point of view by addressing power efficient and robust biomedical signal acquisition techniques.

About the speakers:
Chris Van Hoof received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven in collaboration with IMEC in 1992. At imec, he became successively head of the detector systems group (in 1998), Director of the Microsystems Department (in 2002) and Integrated Systems Department (in 2004), and Program Director (in 2007). Since 2009 he is Department Director and program director of HUMAN++ in the Smart Systems Unit at imec in Leuven and the HOLST Centre in Eindhoven. Integrated Microsystems research focuses on the application of advanced technology for the creation of miniature components and subsystems, ultra-low power wearable wireless sensor systems, and smart implantable devices. Since 2000 Chris Van Hoof is also a guest professor at the University of Leuven.

Refet Firat Yazicioglu is Senior Researcher and R&D Team Leader at IMEC, where he is contributing to the activities on Analog Integrated Circuit design for portable and implantable biomedical applications. Firat has received the M.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics Eng. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 2008. Firat has (co)authored over 35 publications, 3 book chapters, and a book on ultra-low-power circuit and system design for biomedical applications.