Key result
Novel mixed-signal IC for edge-AI AF detection yields promising simulation metrics including 95 dB CMRR.
Why the study?
Atrial fibrillation diagnosis typically requires prolonged Holter monitoring, which causes patient discomfort, motivating development of a small patch ECG device with integrated edge AI detection.
The proposed mixed-signal IC design demonstrates promising simulation characteristics for enabling edge AI-based atrial fibrillation detection in small patch ECG devices.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common heart arrhythmia and is closely associated with causing strokes. Diagnosis is usually performed with Holter monitors over longer periods of time, causing discomfort to the patient. The proposed mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) is designed for small patch electrocardiogram (ECG) devices and combines, an analog front-end (AFE) with tailored recording channel characteristics and 12-bit successive-approximation-register analog digital converter (SAR ADC) as well as an RISC-V based microcontroller (μC) for edge artificial intelligence (AI)-based AF-detection. The digital signal processing is supported with hardware accelerators. Including 160 kB of SRAM, the system on chip (SoC) requires 25.56 mm² in silicon area in a 180 nm technology. The recording channel shows promising simulation results with an input impedance of 230 MΩ, an input referred noise of below 1.6 μVrms and a CMMR of 95 dB. The digital part enables the integration of AI-based classification on the IC. Due to the flexibility of the software-based classification approach, this IC can also be used to detect other arrhythmias.
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Hoyer et al. (2023) studied Atrial fibrillation. Mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) for edge-AI-based ECG classification was evaluated on Hardware simulation results (input impedance, input referred noise, CMMR). The proposed mixed-signal IC for edge-AI-based AF detection demonstrated promising simulation results, including an input impedance of 230 MΩ, input referred noise <1.6 μVrms, and a CMMR of 95 dB.
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