Title
A 2.34μJ/scan acoustic power scalable charge-redistribution pMUT interface system with on-chip aberration compensation for portable ultrasonic applications
Abstract
A 1- to 8-ch scalable pMUT interface system with on-chip aberration compensation is presented for portable ultrasonic imaging applications. The system overcomes the necessity of area and power reduction for large ultrasonic arrays and presents the first hardware implementation on-chip calibration to improve the signal quality. The Charge Redistribution Transmitter (CR-TX) saves power by 32.8% while driving pMUT array at a wide range from 100 kHz to 5MHz. The CR-TX drives up to 500pF/channel load, which is 33× of the state-of-the-art ultrasonic driver reported to date. The on-chip adaptive beamformer supports five different media scans, has channel scalability and features the first demonstration of on-chip aberration compensation. The 8-ch system fabricated in 65nm CMOS occupies the core area of 700×1490μm, TX drives up to 6V while consuming 2.34μJ/scan.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ASSCC.2016.7844167
2016 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
ultrasonic imaging,pMUT,aberration compensation,charge re-distribution
Transmitter,Ultrasonic sensor,PMUT,Adaptive beamformer,Sound power,System on a chip,Computer science,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-3701-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Judyta Tillak100.68
Sina Akhbari200.34
Nimesh Shah300.34
Ljubomir Radakovic400.34
Liwei Lin512228.76
Jerald Yoo628244.17