Load Adaptive, Reconfigurable Active Rectifier for Multiple Input Multple Output (MIMO) Implant Power Management
- Technology Benefits
- Excessive power at output is mitigatedImproved rectifier efficiency5x-10x longer battery lifeCan be used with a wide range of load currentsReduced current leakageNo off-chip calibration required
- Technology Application
- Fully implantable biomedical devicesImplant power management units
- Detailed Technology Description
- Researchers led by Professor Dejan Markovic have developed a novel reconfigurable, PVT invariant and power efficient AR-WPT that includes an ALC unit. With this ALC unit, the input power is controlled and excessive power at the output is significantly mitigated. As well, the efficiency of the rectifier is improved due to the new real-time offset controlled schemes, which are implemented for both types of diodes. This system is able to perform 5x-10x longer (battery time) compared to the state-of-the-art, has improved efficiency for a wide range of load currents, has reduced current leakage through the ALC unit, and does not require any off-chip calibration.
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State Of Development
Prototype devices have been developed and extensively tested.
Background
For fully implantable biomedical devices, active realization of the active rectifier for wireless power transfer (AR-WPT) requires high power efficiency and load adaptive ability. During the implant functioning, the electrical load requirement changes in time from very light to very high. Most previous designs ignore the need for real-time load adaptation and excessive power is dumped to the DC-limiter. Other techniques partially solve the problem by fixing either the ON or OFF delay or introducing a fixed offset at the path, while others require off-chip offset calibration. To truly solve this problem, both the real-time offset calibration for reconfigurable AR-WPT and the implemented adaptive load control (ALC) unit, which prevents unnecessary power delivery to the output, need to be dealt with concurrently.
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Tech ID/UC Case
28916/2017-510-0
Related Cases
2017-510-0
- *Abstract
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UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have invented a novel full-fledged implant power management unit, which is highly programmable and can process multiple input power deliveries on-chip.
- *Principal Investigator
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Name: Dejan Markovic
Department:
Name: Dejan Rozgic
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- Country/Region
- USA
