AN ASIC SOLUTION FOR INTELLIGENT ELECTRODES AND ACTIVE-CABLE USDED IN A WEARABLE ECG MONITORING SYSTEM

Geng Yang, Jian Chen, Fredrik Jonsson, Hannu Tenhunen, Li-Rong Zheng

2009

Abstract

This paper describes a digital CMOS Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) solution with the complete data acquisition and transmission for the use in a wearable electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring system. The main particularity of this system is related to the proposed reconfigurable microchip architecture for an intelligent electrode. The chip area is 2.3 mm2 in a standard 0.18 µm CMOS technology. The chip is operating at 24 MHz system clock with 3.3 V power supply for I/O cells and 1.8 V for the core circuit respectively. The estimated dynamic power dissipation is only 857 µW. The post-layout simulation results show that the microchip embedded inside an intelligent electrode features ultra low power consumption and is quite feasible for a hand-held Personal Health Assistant (PHA) which uses a battery as energy source.

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Yang G., Chen J., Jonsson F., Tenhunen H. and Zheng L. (2009). AN ASIC SOLUTION FOR INTELLIGENT ELECTRODES AND ACTIVE-CABLE USDED IN A WEARABLE ECG MONITORING SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111- 64-7, pages 209-213. DOI: 10.5220/0001539802090213


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices09,
author={Geng Yang and Jian Chen and Fredrik Jonsson and Hannu Tenhunen and Li-Rong Zheng},
title={AN ASIC SOLUTION FOR INTELLIGENT ELECTRODES AND ACTIVE-CABLE USDED IN A WEARABLE ECG MONITORING SYSTEM },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={209-213},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001539802090213},
isbn={978-989-8111- 64-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - AN ASIC SOLUTION FOR INTELLIGENT ELECTRODES AND ACTIVE-CABLE USDED IN A WEARABLE ECG MONITORING SYSTEM
SN - 978-989-8111- 64-7
AU - Yang G.
AU - Chen J.
AU - Jonsson F.
AU - Tenhunen H.
AU - Zheng L.
PY - 2009
SP - 209
EP - 213
DO - 10.5220/0001539802090213