An ultra-low power ECG acquisition and monitoring ASIC system for WBAN applications

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-70

  Liu, Xin ^a   Zheng, Yuanjin ^a,b   Phyu, Myint Wai ^a   Endru, F N ^a   Navaneethan, V ^a   Zhao, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Analog front end; digital application specific integrated circuits (ASIC); electrocardiogram (ECG); QRS detection; signal acquisition; wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ANALOG FRONT END; DIGITAL APPLICATIONS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG); QRS DETECTION; SIGNAL ACQUISITIONS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; SENSOR NODES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84862801082     PISSN: 21563357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2012.2187707     Document Type: Article

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