Title :
Design of a system-on-chip for ECG signal processing
Author :
Chang, Meng-Chou ; Lin, Zong-Xin ; Chang, Che-Wei ; Chan, Hsiao-Lung ; Feng, Wu-Shiung
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chang Gung Univ., Tao-Yuan
Abstract :
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the body-surface manifestation of the electrical potentials generated during heart activity. The ECG can be used to diagnose heart disease, identify cardiac arrhythmias, and evaluate the effects of drugs. This paper presents the design of an ECG-processing System-on-Chip (SoC), which incorporates an ARM922T hard macrocell as its processor core. This SoC takes the ECG signals as inputs, and detects the positions of the QRS-complexes. The architecture of this SoC and the associated algorithm of QRS detection will be discussed in the paper
Keywords :
digital signal processing chips; electrocardiography; patient diagnosis; signal processing equipment; system-on-chip; ARM922T hard macrocell; ECG signal processing; QRS detection; QRS-complex; cardiac arrhythmias; electrical potentials; electrocardiogram; heart activity; heart disease diagnosis; processor core; system-on-chip; Cardiac disease; Drugs; Electric potential; Electrocardiography; Heart; Macrocell networks; Signal design; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; System-on-a-chip;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2004. Proceedings. The 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tainan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8660-4
DOI :
10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1412791
