Abstract

This brief describes a high power efficiency, high linearity current driver for wearable electrical impedance tomography (EIT). It is extremely important to improve the power efficiency of the current driver circuit for wearable EIT applications because it consumes the majority of the power. As such, we propose a multi-stage shifting current mirror (SCM) current-steering current driver circuit with customized dynamic element matching (DEM) techniques to suppress harmonic distortion (HD) to the greatest extent. Furthermore, the placement of switches in the current mirror circuit is optimized to reduce glitches during the switching phases. Operating between 14 MHz to 56 MHz, the power consumptions for the current mirror and the digital control logic are 21.6-141.6 lW and 64.8-438 μW, respectively. The proposed circuit has demonstrated an excellent energy efficiency of 0.3 μW/kHz while maintaining a total harmonic distortion (HD) of <-43 dB (0.7%).

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