Abstract :
System-on-Chip solid state circuits that sense, receive, transmit, and process signals are the sensors, or eyes and ears, of the medical field of the millennium. The goal and design of the System-on-Chip (SOC) program for industry will be to provide affordable, reproducible, and reliable front-end instrumentation, components and subsystems for medical systems. To process/store/analyze the signals acquired from these medical sensors, analog/digital systems are used to provide data fusion and information extraction. These biomedical smart sensors cover the hybrid domains of mixed-technology (electrical, mechanical, optical, thermal, biochemical) and mixed-concept (electrical, control, digital signal processing). These significant domain design differences impose robust design challenges for medical sensor technology
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; biomedical electronics; biomedical transducers; integrated circuit design; intelligent sensors; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; sensor fusion; System-on-Chip solid state circuits; analog/digital systems; biomedical smart sensors; data fusion; domain design differences; front-end instrumentation; information extraction; medical sensor technology; medical systems; mixed-signal design; robust design challenges; Biosensors; Ear; Eyes; Instruments; Intelligent sensors; Mechanical sensors; Sensor systems; Signal processing; Solid state circuits; System-on-a-chip;
