Chopper-stabilized instrumentation amplifier for wireless telemetry

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8265769
APP PUB NO 20080180278A1
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11700738

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This disclosure describes a chopper stabilized instrumentation amplifier. The amplifier is configured to achieve stable measurements at low frequency with very low power consumption. The instrumentation amplifier uses a differential architecture and a mixer amplifier to substantially eliminate noise and offset from an output signal produced by the amplifier. Dynamic limitations, i.e., glitching, that result from chopper stabilization at low power are substantially eliminated through a combination of chopping at low impedance nodes within the mixer amplifier and feedback. The signal path of the amplifier operates as a continuous time system, providing minimal aliasing of noise or external signals entering the signal pathway at the chop frequency or its harmonics. The amplifier can be used in a low power system, such as an implantable medical device. The amplifier may be used for physiological signal sensing, impedance sensing, telemetry or other test and measurement applications.

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MEDTRONIC INC710 MEDTRONIC PARKWAY N E MINNEAPOLIS MN 55432

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Denison, Timothy J Minneapolis, US 127 6021

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