University of California

Nec Usa, Inc.

Jan Rabaey

Michel Martin Maharbiz

Jose M Carmena

Dongjin Seo

Ryan Neely

Elad Alon

Konlin Shen

Miodrag Potkonjak

Lisa Guerra

Described herein are implantable devices configured to emit an electrical pulse. An exemplary implantable device includes an ultrasonic transducer configured to receive ultrasonic waves that power the implantable device and encode a trigger signal; a first electrode and a second electrode configured to be in electrical communication with a tissue and emit an electrical pulse to the tissue in response to the trigger signal; and an integrated circuit comprising an energy storage circuit. Also described are systems that include one or more implantable device and an interrogator configured to operate the one or more implantable devices. Further described is a closed loop system that includes a first device configured to detect a signal, an interrogator configured to emit a trigger signal in response to the detected signal, and an implantable device configured to emit an electrical pulse in response to receiving the trigger signal. Further described are computer systems useful for operating one or more implantable devices, as well as methods of electrically stimulating a tissue.

Implants using ultrasonic waves for stimulating tissue

Described herein are implantable devices configured to detect an electrophysiological signal. Certain exemplary implantable devices comprise a first electrode and a second electrode configured to engage a tissue and detect an electrophysiological signal; an integrated circuit comprising a multi-transistor circuit and a modulation circuit configured to modulate a current based on the electrophysiological signal; and an ultrasonic transducer configured to emit an ultrasonic backscatter encoding the electrophysiological signal from the tissue based on the modulated current. Also described herein are systems that include one or more implantable devices and an interrogator comprising one or more ultrasonic transducers configured to transit ultrasonic waves to the one or more implantable devices or receive ultrasonic backscatter from the one or more implantable devices. Further described are computer systems for operating one or more implantable devices, and methods of detecting an electrophysiological signal in a tissue.

Implants using ultrasonic backscatter for detecting electrophysiological signals

High level synthesis of datapaths has traditionally concentrated on synthesizing a specific implementation for a given computational problem. Methods to compose a reconfigurable BISR (built-in-self-repair) implementation with a minimum amount of area overhead are disclosed. Previously the BISR scope has been restricted to the substitution of operation modules with only those of the same type. Novel resource allocation, assignment and scheduling and transformation methods, primarily for ASIC designs, are described. These methods are based on the exploration of the design solution space accomplished by use of high level synthesis processes to find designs where resources of several different types can be backed up with the same unit.

Behavioral synthesis for reconfigurable datapath structures

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