Wearable system-on-a-chip UWB radar for contact-less cardiopulmonary monitoring: Present status

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5274-5277

  Zito, D ^a   Pepe, D ^a   Mincica, M ^a   Zito, F ^b   De Rossi, D ^a   Lanata A ^a   Scilingo, E P ^a   Tognetti, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; RADAR SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

90NM CMOS; BODY CHANNELS; BUILDING BLOCKS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; FULLY INTEGRATED; HEART BEATS; HEART WALLS; IEEE 802.15.4; LOW-POWER; POST-LAYOUT SIMULATIONS; PRESENT STATUS; RADIO INTERFACES; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODELS; UWB RADARS; WEARABLE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS INTERFACES; ZIG BEES;

TRACKING RADAR;

EID: 61849104582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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