FPGA design and implementation of Electrocardiogram biomedical embedded system

This paper presents a FPGA design and implementation of Electrocardiogram (ECG) biomedical embedded system (ECG-SoC). It performs ECG pre-processing and heart rate variability (HRV) feature extraction which suitable for remote homecare monitoring and rural health care application. The ECG-SoC is designed using hardware/software co-design technique based on offline dataset from MIT-BIH database. Altera Cyclone II DE2-115 FPGA platform was used for system prototyping and functionality verification. The computation results are displayed on Nios II-Linux terminal and produce output files for post analysis executed on the host personal computer (PC).