An IEEE 802.15.4 baseband SoC for tracking applications in the medical environment based on Actel Cortex-M1 soft-core

Author

De la Piedra, Antonio ; Touhafi, Abdellah ; Cornetta, Gianluca

Author_Institution

Vrije Univ. Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

fYear

2010

fDate

24-25 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we present the design of a baseband System-On-Chip for tracking applications in the medical environment based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard which can be used to track patient location in hospitals. It utilizes an ARM Cortex-M1 soft-core, 16 kb of SRAM and a bus architecture based on the AHB-Lite specification. The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC primitives are implemented in a Flash-ROM of 32 kb. The hardware verification was done in an Actel M1AFS1500 130 nm LVCMOS FPGA. The total logic usage of the FPGA was 81 % (31142 core cells). The power consumption of the IEEE 802.15.4 implementation was 25.438 mW at 1.5V power supply and 8 MHz clock rate.

Keywords

SRAM chips; Zigbee; biomedical communication; biomedical electronics; field programmable gate arrays; patient monitoring; radio tracking; system-on-chip; wireless sensor networks; AHB-Lite specification; Actel Cortex-M1 soft-core; Actel M1AFS1500; Flash-ROM; IEEE 802.15.4 MAC primitives; IEEE 802.15.4 standard; LVCMOS FPGA; SRAM; baseband system-on-chip; bus architecture; hospital; medical environment; patient location; tracking application; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Power demand; Random access memory; Registers; Software; System-on-a-chip; Field programmable gate arrays; Medical services; Tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT), 2010 17th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Enschede

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8488-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8487-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCVT.2010.5720467

Filename

5720467