A Power Budget Analysis for an Implantable UWB Transceiver for Brain Neuromodulation Application

The next evolutionary step in biological signal monitoring will be enabled by wireless communication. Low power and cost-efficient wireless transceivers are currently being employed for implantable medical devices (IMDs), in addition to military and civilian applications such as monitoring, surveillance, and home automation. The major goal of this paper is to do a thorough and realistic link budget analysis for an implantable wireless transceiver operating in the 3–5 GHz ultrawideband frequency with a link distance of 2 m (which includes 10 mm of brain tissue layer and 1.99 m of air medium), data rate of 100 Mbps with On-Off keying (OOK) modulation, and a minimum receiver sensitivity of −58.01 dBm. The proposed power budget analysis is particularly well suited for distributed brain implant applications as it models the path loss including the tissue layer without compromising the spectrum regulation imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for UWB communication.