A 1.2-V 7.2-mu w ECG AFE With Continuous Time Self-Calibration Filters

This paper presents a 1.2V low-power low-noise analog front end circuit for electrocardiogram (ECG) applications. The proposed system architecture is optimized to achieve a better trade-off between power consumption and noise figure. A low noise instrumentation amplifier with tunable pseudo-resistor, a programmable gain stage, and a low-pass Gm-C filter are adopted. For the purpose of the accurate cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter, a novel self-calibration circuit is employed. The AFE consumed 7.2 mu W and 0.5-100Hz input-referred integrated noise is 4.5 mu V-rms in a 0.13 mu m CMOS technology.R&D projects of Shenzhen government [JSGG20130918140947999]; NSFC [61471011]CPCI-S(ISTP