Design of a Pipeline Processor for the Automated ECG Diagnosis in Real Time

실시간 심전도 자동진단을 위한 파이프라인 프로세서의 설계

This paper describes a design of hardware system for real time automatic diagnosis of ECG arrhythmia based on pipeline processor consisting of three microcomputer. ECG data is acquisited by 12 bit A/D converter with hardware QRS triggered detector. Four diagnostic parameters-heart rate, morpholigy, axis, and ST segment-are used for the classification and the diagnosis of arrhythmia. The functions of the main CPU were distributed and processed with three microcomputers. Therefore the effective data process and the real time process using microcomputer can be obtained. The interconnection structure consisting of two common memory unit is designed to decrease the delay time caused by data transfer between processors and be which the delay time can be taken 1% of one clock period.