Title :
A SoC Electronic Pill (ePille®) with 32bit SIRIUS Processor and Bidirectional Communication System used for Biomedical Telemetry Applications
Author :
Fawaz, Nidal ; Jansen, Dirk
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Appl. Res. Offenburg, Offenburg
Abstract :
A new miniaturized capsule with 32bit processor and bidirectional communication system is being developed for multitask application. The capsule is designed to be a platform for medical assistant application inside the body. The processor core SIRIUS has been developed, simulated, synthesized to a netlist and verified. The designed telemetry unit is a synchronous bidirectional communication block using continuous phase DQPSK of 115 kHz low carrier frequency for inductive data transmission suited for human body energy transfer. The communication system can assist the electronic pill to trigger an actuator for drug delivery, to record temperature, or to measure pH of the body. The complete system is designed to fit small-size mass medical application with low power consumption, size of 7x25 mm. The system is designed, simulated, emulated on FPGA, and routed in AMIS Technology.
Keywords :
biology computing; biomedical telemetry; drug delivery systems; system-on-chip; 32bit SIRIUS processor; SoC electronic pill; bidirectional communication system; biomedical telemetry applications; drug delivery; ePille; medical assistant application; Actuators; Bidirectional control; Biological system modeling; Biomedical telemetry; Data communication; Energy exchange; Frequency; Humans; Medical simulation; Temperature measurement; Drug delivery; Lab-on-pill; SOC; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Damascus
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1751-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1752-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4529934