32-channel ultra-low-noise arbitrary signal generation platform for biopotential emulation
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Haci, D
Liu, Y
Constandinou, TG
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
This paper presents a multichannel, ultra-low-noise arbitrary signal generation platform for emulating a wide range of different biopotential signals (e.g. ECG, EEG, etc). This is intended for use in the test, measurement and demonstration of bioinstrumentation and medical devices that interface to electrode inputs. The system is organized in 3 key blocks for generating, processing and converting the digital data into a parallel high performance analogue output. These blocks consist of: (1) a Raspberry Pi 3 (RPi3) board; (2) a custom Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board with low-power IGLOO Nano device; and (3) analogue board including the Digital-to-Analogue Converters (DACs) and output circuits. By implementing the system this way, good isolation can be achieved between the different power and signal domains. This mixed-signal architecture takes in a high bitrate SDIO (Secure Digital Input Output) stream, recodes and packetizes this to drive two multichannel DACs, with parallel analogue outputs that are then attenuated and filtered. The system achieves 32-parallel output channels each sampled at 48kS/s, with a 10kHz bandwidth, 110dB dynamic range and uV-level output noise.
Date Issued
2017-09-28
Date Acceptance
2017-02-17
Citation
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2017, pp.698-701
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
698
End Page
701
Journal / Book Title
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Wellcome Trust
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
BH134389
EP/M020975/1
EP/K015060/1
Source
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-05-28
Finish Date
2017-05-31
Coverage Spatial
Baltimore, MD (USA)
Date Publish Online
2017-09-28