Design of a CMOS image sensor and stimulation IC for a wide-angle retina implant

In this work the design of a new epiretinal stimulator approach with integrated bendable imaging sensor is presented. First, the fundamental differences to the existing retinal stimulation implants is described. In the second part, a brief description of the novel designed implant is given, where several integrated circuits are placed on a single polyimide foil to create the mechanically flexible implant. Then the design of the developed dies is presented, containing the image sensor with a signal processing unit, a configurable waveform generator and a current controlled stimulation unit.