Wireless ECG System-On-A-Chip

建议开发一种使用新的蓝牙网络标准进行通信的无线心电芯片。蓝牙是一种低成本、低功耗的无线数据通信系统。它正在迅速成为便携式计算中的标准无线互连。业界采用蓝牙标准的同时，片上系统(SOC)设计工具和铸造工艺的最新进展使定制集成电路(IC)设计在专业应用中变得更加经济可行。蓝牙2.5 GHz跳频无线电和基带功能最近可用于低成本的cmos集成电路工艺。AME建议将这些核心设计与实施心电信号放大、滤波和数字转换的经过验证的模拟模块相集成，以创建允许直接采集心电信号的单个芯片，并将其连接到无线蓝牙计算机网络。该芯片的一个示例应用是将其与心电电极贴片相结合，以形成一个系统，作为无线心电贴片附着在皮肤上。第一阶段项目将通过完成集成功能块的模拟来确定低成本、微型系统的可行性。第二阶段将完成一个完全集成的蓝牙心电芯片的芯片设计、布局、制造和测试。建议的商业应用：建议的无线蓝牙心电芯片可以应用于各种医疗应用。例如，无线蓝牙心电芯片可以与灵活的锂聚合物电池相结合，创建心电信号到网络的连接，该连接可以集成在粘合电极中。

Proposed is the development of a wireless ECG chip that communicates using the new Bluetooth networking standard. Bluetooth is a wireless data communication system intended for low cost and low power networking. It is quickly becoming the standard wireless interconnect in portable computing. Industry adoption of the Bluetooth standard coincides with recent advances in system-on-a-chip (SOC) design tools and foundry processes that make custom integrated circuit (IC) design more economically feasible in specialized applications. Bluetooth 2.5 GHz frequency hopping radio and baseband functions are recently available for low-cost CMOS integrated circuit processes. AME proposes to integrate these core designs with proven analog blocks that implement ECG signal amplification, filtering, and digital conversion to create a single chip that allows direct acquisition of ECG signals, to a wireless Bluetooth computer network. An example application of this chip is to combine it with ECG electrode patches to make a system that attaches as a wireless ECG patch to the skin. The phase I project will establish the feasibility of a low-cost, miniature system by completing a simulation of the integrated functional blocks. Phase II will complete the chip design, layout, manufacturing, and testing of a fully integrated Bluetooth ECG chip. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: The proposed wireless Bluetooth ECG chip can be applied to a variety of medical applications. For example, the wireless Bluetooth ECG chip can be combined with a flexible lithium polymer battery to create and ECG signal to network connection that can be integrated within an adhesive electrode.