Design of a system-on-chip for ECG signal processing

Author

Chang, Meng-Chou ; Lin, Zong-Xin ; Chang, Che-Wei ; Chan, Hsiao-Lung ; Feng, Wu-Shiung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chang Gung Univ., Tao-Yuan

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

441

Abstract

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the body-surface manifestation of the electrical potentials generated during heart activity. The ECG can be used to diagnose heart disease, identify cardiac arrhythmias, and evaluate the effects of drugs. This paper presents the design of an ECG-processing System-on-Chip (SoC), which incorporates an ARM922T hard macrocell as its processor core. This SoC takes the ECG signals as inputs, and detects the positions of the QRS-complexes. The architecture of this SoC and the associated algorithm of QRS detection will be discussed in the paper

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; electrocardiography; patient diagnosis; signal processing equipment; system-on-chip; ARM922T hard macrocell; ECG signal processing; QRS detection; QRS-complex; cardiac arrhythmias; electrical potentials; electrocardiogram; heart activity; heart disease diagnosis; processor core; system-on-chip; Cardiac disease; Drugs; Electric potential; Electrocardiography; Heart; Macrocell networks; Signal design; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2004. Proceedings. The 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Tainan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8660-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1412791

Filename

1412791