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System Design of Neural Stimulators

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This chapter discusses several system aspects for the design of neural stimulator circuits and provides a framework to compare such designs in general. Throughout the chapter, a comparison is made between the neural stimulator designs that are to be discussed in more detail in Chaps. 6 and 7. Both designs have been created with a different application in mind and this chapter discusses the consequences.

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    Marijn van Dongen

  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Wouter Serdijn

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van Dongen, M., Serdijn, W. (2016). System Design of Neural Stimulators. In: Design of Efficient and Safe Neural Stimulators. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28131-5_5

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