Title : 
An introduction to future truly wearable medical devices—From application to ASIC
         
        
            Author : 
Casson, Alexander J. ; Logesparan, Lojini ; Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
         
        
        
            fDate : 
Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This talk will provide an introduction to the “Towards future truly wearable medical devices: from application to ASIC” mini-symposium. For user comfort and acceptance long term physiological sensors must be discrete, comfortable and easy to use. These requirements place stringent limits on all aspects of the system design: from the overall application aim, to power generation issues, to low power electronic design techniques. For successful devices design issues in all of these areas must be solved simultaneously. The work here presents an overview and introduction to these topics.
         
        
            Keywords : 
application specific integrated circuits; biomedical electronics; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; patient monitoring; ASIC; analogue-to-digital converter; front-end analogue amplifier; low power electronic design techniques; patient monitoring; wearable medical devices; wearable physiological sensor; wireless transmitter; Application specific integrated circuits; Biomedical monitoring; Electroencephalography; Medical diagnostic imaging; Monitoring; Sensors; Signal processing; Clothing; Equipment and Supplies; Forecasting; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Telemetry;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Buenos Aires
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4123-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627898