Design of Implantable Medical Devices: The Research and Industrial / Regulatory Views

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• Professor Fernando Silveira, EED, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
• Wednesday 25 September 2019, 11:00-12:00
• Room 611 (Gabor Seminar Room), Level 6, EEE Department.

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This seminar links, on one hand, the system, industrial and regulatory view of the design of implantable medical devices, and on the other hand, an example of recent circuit design-level research results. At the system level, the evolution of approved implantable medical devices and opportunities for the circuit designer are summarized. At the circuit level, results on a circuit design solution for neural amplifiers (Oreggioni et al, IEEE T BioCAS 2018) are presented. Finally, the impact of the requirements imposed by regulatory agencies on the circuit design level is discussed.

Bio:Fernando Silveira received the electrical engineering degree from Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1990, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in microelectronics from Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Universidad de la República. His research interests include the design of ultra-low-power analog and RF integrated circuits and systems, in particular with biomedical application. In this field, he has co-authored one book and many technical papers. He has had multiple industrial activities including leading the design of an application specified integrated circuit for implantable pacemakers and designing analog circuit modules for implantable devices for various companies worldwide, field in which he continues to do consulting. He was member of the Technical Advisory Board of Gtronix, Inc, USA from 2006 to 2010, received the “Ingeniero Destacado” (Distinguished Engineer) award by the Uruguayan Association of Engineers in 2007 and was a member for 2011-2012 of the Distinguished Lecturers Program of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

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