Future Work

The features of the ECG are also important indicator for the diagnosis of many diseases. For example, the absence of the P wave may indicate cases of atrial fibrillation.

The accurate detection of all points and waves of the ECG is therefore also an important function. To provide more information to the end-user, the study of an area and power efficient automatic method for detection and classification of the ECG waveform is of great benefit.

In terms of architecture design for VLSI implementation, further power and cost efficiency can be achieved by integration of front-end circuits, SOC, and wireless transmission through use of system-in-package (SIP) technology or mixed-signal IC design. The HRV processor can also serve as a processing unit in a multi-biomedical signal system [65] for uses in ICU.

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