A 1V, Micropower System-on-Chip for Vital-Sign Monitoring in Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Author

Wong, Alan C -W ; McDonagh, Declan ; Kathiresan, Ganesh ; Omeni, Okundu C. ; El-Jamaly, Omar ; Chan, Thomas C -K ; Paddan, Paul ; Burdett, Alison J.

Author_Institution

Toumaz Technol., Abingdon, Abingdon

fYear

2008

fDate

3-7 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

138

Lastpage

602

Abstract

This paper describes the integration of a system solution with a full-custom hardware MAC, digital microprocessor core and I/O peripherals, on-chip memory, micropower ADC, wireless transceiver and custom sensor interfaces. This SoC platform device is capable of achieving ubiquitous medical monitoring when interfaced to appropriate body worn sensors, and represents state-of-the art in terms of functionality and ultra- low-power consumption.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; integrated memory circuits; low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; peripheral interfaces; system-on-chip; transceivers; wireless sensor networks; I/O peripherals; SoC platform device; custom sensor interfaces; digital microprocessor core; full-custom hardware MAC; micropower ADC; micropower system-on-chip; on-chip memory; ubiquitous medical monitoring; ultra- low-power consumption; vital-sign monitoring; voltage 1 V; wireless body sensor networks; wireless transceiver; Biomedical monitoring; Body sensor networks; Hardware; Microprocessors; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; System-on-a-chip; Transceivers; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2010-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2011-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523095

Filename

4523095