A dual-core system solution for wearable health monitors

F. Bouwens; J. Huisken; H. de Groot; M. Bennebroek; A. Abbo; O. Santana; J. van Meerbergen; A. Fraboulet

doi:10.1145/1973009.1973087

A dual-core system solution for wearable health monitors

F. Bouwens, J. Huisken, H. de Groot, M. Bennebroek, A. Abbo, O. Santana, J. van Meerbergen, A. Fraboulet

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Abstract

This paper presents a system design study for wearable sensor devices intended for healthcare and lifestyle applications based on ECG, EEG and activity monitoring. In order to meet the low-power requirement of these applications, a dual-core signal processing system is proposed which combines an ultra-low-power bio-medical Application Specific Instruction-set Processor (BioASIP) and a low-power general-purpose micro-controller (MSP430). To validate the merits of the proposed architecture, system-level power analysis and trade-offs are conducted using real hardware measurements of an ECG R-peak detection application. The results show that the proposed dual-core architecture consumes around 65.38µW, about 25.8x smaller than an MSP430-only approach. Out of 65.38µW, the BioASIP consumes only 11µW and the rest is used in the analog front-end, A/D conversion, and control tasks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI '11)
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	379–382
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0667-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1973009.1973087
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	21st Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2011) - Lausanne, Switzerland Duration: 2 May 2011 → 4 May 2011 Conference number: 21 http://www.glsvlsi.org/

Conference

Conference	21st Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2011)
Abbreviated title	GLSVLSI 2011
Country	Switzerland
City	Lausanne
Period	2/05/11 → 4/05/11
Internet address	http://www.glsvlsi.org/

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Bouwens, F., Huisken, J., de Groot, H., Bennebroek, M., Abbo, A., Santana, O., van Meerbergen, J., & Fraboulet, A. (2011). A dual-core system solution for wearable health monitors. In Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI '11) (pp. 379–382). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/1973009.1973087

Bouwens, F. ; Huisken, J. ; de Groot, H. ; Bennebroek, M. ; Abbo, A. ; Santana, O. ; van Meerbergen, J. ; Fraboulet, A. / A dual-core system solution for wearable health monitors. Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI '11). New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2011. pp. 379–382

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Bouwens, F, Huisken, J, de Groot, H, Bennebroek, M, Abbo, A, Santana, O, van Meerbergen, J & Fraboulet, A 2011, A dual-core system solution for wearable health monitors. in Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI '11). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, NY, USA, pp. 379–382, 21st Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2011), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2/05/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1973009.1973087

A dual-core system solution for wearable health monitors. / Bouwens, F.; Huisken, J.; de Groot, H.; Bennebroek, M.; Abbo, A.; Santana, O.; van Meerbergen, J.; Fraboulet, A.

Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI '11). New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2011. p. 379–382.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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