Abstract: The Implantable Medical Device IMD is a computer system that is Embedded into the human body. IMDs have extended the ability of physicians to diagnose and treat diseases, making great contributions to health and improve the quality of life of patients and, play an important role in keeping them alive. The new generations of IMDs are increasingly incorporating more computing and communication capabilities. The solutions to optimize the battery life time challange are RF energy harvesting, wireless power transfer and provide lower power transmitters. In this paper, methodologies to transfer and harvest energy in implantable medical devices are introduced and discussed to highlight the uses and significances of various potential power sources followed by in-depth discussions of the most popular method, namely inductive linking of wireless power transfer. The circuits have been designed in UMC 0.18.........
Keywords - CMOS analog circuit design , Integrated Circuits , Implantable Medical Device IMD , Energy Harvesting , Inductive Link , Wireless Power Transfer WPT, Wireless Body Sensor Network WBSN, Medical Wireless Technology, remote powering , power management, Telemedicine.
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