These biomedical circuits and systems topics cover the techniques and methods employed to build ultra low-power low-voltage high reliability building blocks dedicated to implement advanced implantable and wirelessly controlled micro-systems such as sensors and micro-stimulateurs. The lectures cover typical micro-devicse and focus their principal building blocks such as power link, bidirectional data link, different types of modulators and demodulators, voltage regulators, integrators and filters, multi-voltage supply, building blocks for measurement of several in vivo parameters, DACs, ADCs, and case studies of cortical implantable microdevices. Specific Topics are:

• * Power link design using RFIC
• * External controllers
• * Implantable receivers
• * Power supply management
• * Wireless measurement modules
• * Case studies.

Biography

Mohamad Sawan received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Université Laval, Quebec, Canada in 1984, the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, in 1986 and 1990 respectively, and postdoctorate training from McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada in 1991. He joined Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in 1991 where he is currently a Professor in Microelectronics. His scientific interests are the design and test of mixed-signal (analog, digital and RF) circuits and systems, the digital and analog signal processing, the modeling, design, integration, assembly and validation of advanced wirelessely powered and controlled monitoring and measurement techniques. These topics are oriented toward the biomedical implantable devices and telecommunications applications. Dr. Sawan is a holder of a Canadian Research Chair in Smart Medical Devices. He is leading the ReSMiQ (Microelectronics Strategic Alliance of Quebec) research center known and the Eastern Canadian IEEE-Solid State Circuits Society Chapter. Also, he is cofounder of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, founder of PolySTIM neurotechnology laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, and founder of the Northeastern workshop on Circuits And Systems (NewCAS). He received many awards for academic excellence and he is cofounder of a Canadian biomedical technology company Cortivision. He received the Barbara Turnbull 2003 award for spinal cord research, he is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the IEEE.