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A Low-cost and Low-power IEEE 802.15.4-compliant System-On-Chip for Tracking Application in Medical Environment Host Publication: Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet Authors: A. De La Piedra, A. Touhafi and G. Cornetta Publication Date: Nov. 2010
Abstract: We present the design of a baseband System-On-Chip
for tracking applications in the medical environment
based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard which can be used to
track patient location in hospitals.
An issue in the commonly named healthcare pervasive
computing is keeping track of patients location in the
medical environment. Several applications can benefit, for
instance, to monitor patients affected by mental illness moving
out from the hospital designated areas or to perform location-
based medical services where different analyses are carried
out in relation to patient's place.
To design an optimal solution requires taking into consider-
ation some topics. We are considering wearable devices which
patients have on, at mininum space and weight where battery
life must be improved and power consumption reduced.
The actual SoC model was verified using Mentor Graphics
Questa Codelink using with an ARM CVE simulation model.
FPGA synthesis was performed using Mentor Precision Syn-
thesis on a Virtex 5 xc5vlx50t board.
Future work includes synthesis and co-verification on the
FPGA board using an Actel's CoreMP7 ARM7TDMI-S based
soft-core.
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