Modified silicon base station chips as biomedical sensors

Author

Droitcour, Amy D. ; Boric-Lubecke, Olga ; Lubecke, Victor ; Lin, Jenshan ; Kovacs, Gregoly T A

Author_Institution

Center for Integrated Syst., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

210

Lastpage

211

Abstract

Subcircuits designed for DCS1800/PCS1900 base stations have been reconfigured into single-chip Doppler radar transceivers. Three of these radar chips have been fully integrated in 0.25 μm silicon CMOS and BiCMOS, and they have been used to remotely monitor heart and respiration activity. These radar chips have detected heartbeat and respiration rate 50 cm from the subject, which may be useful in home monitoring, continuous monitoring, and physiological research.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; Doppler radar; biomedical telemetry; cardiology; computerised monitoring; mobile radio; patient monitoring; silicon; transceivers; BiCMOS; CMOS; DCS1800/PCS1900 base stations; biomedical sensors; continuous monitoring; heartbeat detection; home monitoring; physiological research; remote heart monitoring; respiration rate; silicon base station chips; single-chip Doppler radar transceivers; subcircuits; Base stations; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Doppler radar; Heart rate measurement; Radar detection; Remote monitoring; Silicon; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication Technology, 2003. IEEE Topical Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8196-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCT.2003.1321494

Filename

1321494