Characterization of a novel ultra low-power system-on-chip for biopotentials measurement

The incidence of CVD in population is dramatically increasing, due to the world population ageing and to obesity. Advanced home care technologies seem to be the solutions to face this trend controlling the health budgets. In this scenario, silicon manufacturers recently started to develop miniaturized system on chip dedicated to ECG, performing high-accuracy measurements, with low-power consumption. The present paper deals with a novel IC named ReISC3, developed by STMicroelectronics for low-power biopotentials acquisition and processing. Such a system has been characterized and preliminary ECGs were measured, dealing also with the processing aspects.