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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Design and Measured Assessment of a MOS-Only, Capacitorless, Miniature 64-Channel Headstage Circuit for High-Density Surface Electromyography.

Simos Koutsoftidis, Georgios Gryparis, Maciej Zajaczkowski, Guang Yang, Konstantinos Glaros, Dario Farina, Emmanuel M Drakakis

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Simos KoutsoftidisThe Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6580-6932
Georgios GryparisThe Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID 0009-0002-9304-5111
Maciej ZajaczkowskiThe Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5883-9306
Guang YangThe Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Konstantinos GlarosThe Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Dario FarinaThe Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7883-2697
Emmanuel M DrakakisThe Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6649-0573

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/T020970/1European Research Council 810346Imperial College London P81130
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Abstract

backgroundWe present a miniature (30 × 34 mm) 64-channel data acquisition headstage optimized for high-density surface electromyography.

methodsThe headstage is made up of a multi-channel ASIC analogue front-end utilizing only MOS transistors, fabricated in 350 nm CMOS technology (IC die dimensions 6.9 × 1.8 mm), combined with an off-the-shelf multi-channel current-input ADC (DDC264, Texas Instruments). The ASIC analogue front-end employs MOS-based capacitors for both processing and AC-coupling.

resultsThe combination of these two sub-circuits enables the simultaneous recording of 64 channels at a typical sampling rate of 4 KHz with a maximum analogue bandwidth of 0.5-1500 Hz and a resolution of 20-bits. Typical input-referred-noise, determined by the analogue front-end, is 3.5 μV

conclusionsThis work practically demonstrates the viability of using both a MOS-only analogue front-end and commercially available off-shelf high-performance back-end hardware already developed for medical imaging applications to record high-density surface biosignals. The aforementioned techniques can be employed to reduce the size and cost for systems or wearable devices; facilitating the translation of high-density bio-acquisition setups from the research environment to more affordable commercial products.

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analogue front-endelectromyographyHD sEMGMOS-capacitorsmulti-channel acquisitionpseudo-resistors

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PMCPMC13364136

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