A light-weight special purpose system that uses medical sensors to detect the vital signs of an entity.
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Reconfigurable Embedded Medical Systems
Tammara Massey (University of California, USA), Foad Dabiri (University of California, USA), Roozbeh Jafari (University of Texas, USA), Hyduke Noshadi (University of California, USA), Philip Brisk (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,Switzerland), and Majid Sarrafzadeh (University of California, USA)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-002-8.ch016
Abstract
This chapter introduces reconfigurable design techniques for light-weight medical systems. The research presented in this chapter demonstrates how the wise use of reconfiguration in small embedded systems is an approach that is beneficial in heterogeneous medical systems. By shrewdly designing embedded systems, one can make efficient use of limited resources through efficient and effective reconfiguration schemes that balance the tradeoffs between power consumption, memory consumption, and interoperability in heterogeneous environments. Furthermore, several reconfigurable architectures and algorithms presented in this chapter will assist researchers in designing efficient embedded systems that can be reconfigured after deployment, which is an essential feature in embedded medical systems.