This book describes an ECG processing architecture that guides biomedical SoC developers, from theory to implementation and testing. The authors provide complete coverage of the digital circuit implementation of an ultra-low power biomedical SoC, comprised of a detailed description of an ECG processor implemented and fabricated on chip. Coverage also includes the challenges and tradeoffs of designing ECG processors.

Describes digital circuit architecture for implementing ECG processing algorithms on chip;
Includes coverage of signal processing techniques for ECG processing;
Features ultra-low power circuit design techniques;
Enables design of ECG processing architectures and their respective on-chip implementation.

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TTemesghen Tekeste received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Asmara University, Eritrea, in 2007, and the M.S. degree in microsystems engineering from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, in 2012, with a focus on low-power, mixed signal integrated circuit design that involved schematic design, simulation, layout, and verification of an ultra-low power clock generator for heart rate sensor IC. He received his Ph.D. from Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in 2018, where he researched on ultra-low power digital circuit design for biomedical application.. In 2006, he joined the Eritrea Institute of Technology, Asmara, as a Teaching Assistant and a Lab Instructor. He holds two issued U.S. patents, and has authored journal and conference papers. His research interest includes DSP hardware design, computer architecture, ASIC chip design, and FPGA design.

Hani Saleh is an associate professor of electronic engineering at Khalifa University since Jan, 2012. He is an a co-founder and an active member in KSRC (Khalifa University Research Center) where he leads a project for the development of wearable blood glucose monitor SOC and a mobile surveillance SOC and safe exercise monitoring device. Hani published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, he has 15 issued US patents and 5 pending patent applications. Hani has a close to 19 years of industrial experience in ASIC chip design, microprocessor design, DSP core design, graphics core design and embedded system design. His experience spans DSP core design, microprocessor peripherals design, microprocessors and graphics core deign. Prior to joining Khalifa University he worked as a Senior Chip Designer (Technical Lead) at Apple incorporation; where he worked on the design and implementation of Apple next generation graphics cores for its mobile products (iPad, iPhone, etc.), prior to joining Apple, he worked for several leading semiconductor companies including Intel (ATOM mobile microprocessor design), AMD (Bobcat mobile microprocessor design), Qualcomm (QDSP DSP core design for mobile SOC's), Synopsys (a key member of Synopsys turnkey design group where he taped out many ASICs and designed the I2C DW IP included in Synopys DesignWare library), Fujitsu (SPARC compatible high performance microprocessor design) and Motorola Australia (M210 low power microprocessor synthesizable core design).

Baker Mohammad earned his PhD from University of Texas at Austin in 2008, his M.S. degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, and BS degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, all in ECE. Baker is associate professor of ECE at Khalifa University and a founding member of KU Semiconductor Research Center. Prior to joining Khalifa University Baker was a Senior staff Engineer/^ 100Watt (IA-64), to mobile embedded processor low power sub 1 watt (xscale). His research interest includes VLSI, power efficient computing, high yield embedded memory, emerging technology such as memristor, STTRAM, In-Memory-Computing, Efficient hardware accelerator for search engine and image processing. In addition, he is engaged in microwatt range computing platform for wearable electronics and WSN focusing on energy harvesting, power management, and power conversion including efficient dc/dc, ac/dc convertors.

Baker authored/co-authored over 30 referred journals and 80 conference proceedings, 3 books, 18 US patents, multiple invited seminars/panelist, and the presenter of 3 conference tutorials including one tutorial on Energy harvesting and Power management for WSN at the 2015 (ISCAS). Baker is associate editor for microelectronics journal, Elsevier and serves in many technical committee for IEEE conferences and reviewers for journals including TVLSI, IEEE Circuits and Systems. Dr. Mohammad has received several awards including the KUSTAR staff excellence award in intellectual property creation, IEEE TVLSI best paper award, 2016 IEEE MWSCAS Myrill B. Reed best paper award, Qualcomm Qstar award for excellence on performance, and leadership. SRC Techon best session papers for 2016 and 2017. 2009 Best paper award for Qualcomm Qtech conference, and Intel Involve in the community award for volunteer and impact on the community.

Mohammed Ismail received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, in 1983, all in electrical engineering. He served as a Faculty Member with the Elect...

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. IoT for Healthcare.- Chapter 3.Background on ECG Processing.- Chapter 4.Combined CLT and DWT Based ECG Feature Extractor.- Chapter 5.ACLT based QRS Detection and ECG Compression Architecture.- Chapter 6. Ultra-Low Power CAN Detection and VA prediction.