A 30 μw analog signal processor ASIC for portable biopotential signal monitoring

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 209-223

  Yazicioglu, Refet Firat ^a   Kim, Sunyoung ^a   Torfs, Tom ^a   Kim, Hyejung ^a   Van Hoof, Chris ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptive sampling; beat detection; biopotential; chopper modulation; electrocardiogram; impedance measurement; instrumentation amplifier; low power; motion artefact; programmable gain amplifier; R peak; wireless ECG

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; BEAT DETECTION; BIOPOTENTIALS; CHOPPER MODULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER; LOW POWER; MOTION ARTEFACTS; PROGRAMMABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER; R-PEAK; WIRELESS ECG;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DATA COMPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INSTRUMENTS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MONITORING;

EID: 78650882594     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2085930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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