Zhang, Y; Demosthenous, A; (2025) An Area-Efficient, Differential Resonant Ultrasound Pulser with 69% fCV2 Dynamic Power Reduction. In: Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. IEEE: London, United Kingdom.

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This paper presents a scalable, differential resonant pulser for wearable/portable ultrasound applications, such as hand gesture recognition for prosthesis control and gaming. Presently, the mainstream pulser topologies include the class-D amplifier, multilevel pulse shaping, charge-recycling, and LC-resonant. A resonant pulser topology is adopted because theoretical analysis has shown that the resonant pulser has an inherent power advantage over other types of pulsers. The current state-of-the-art resonant pulser, while achieving excellent fCV² power dissipation reduction, lacks scalability. This work aims to tackle this shortcoming by using high-voltage DMOS transistors in a more area-efficient manner. On average, the proposed circuit uses three DMOS transistors per single-ended transducer or six DMOS transistors per differential transducer, making the proposed circuit attractive for multi-channel systems. Post-layout simulation results show that the proposed differential resonant pulser can achieve 69% fCV² dynamic power reduction, which is comparable to the state-of-the-art. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the proposed differential resonant pulser for ultrasound applications is the first of its kind.

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