Efficient Wearable Health Monitoring System using Cortex M0 Based SoC

With an increasing demand of remote healthcare devices continuously tracking various vital health parameters, it becomes a necessity to enable remote computation on the wearable/portable edge device. Applications like blood pressure monitoring require complex calculations, which can be enabled by empowering the edge device with required computational resources and storage. We propose a methodology for building a light-weight System-on-Chip(SoC) for blood pressure monitoring capability enabled by embedded Cortex-M0 processor and the required storage. Given the accuracy required for medical application, we design the SoC taking into account various complexities such as robust verification of interfaces and functional correctness of the deployed algorithm by FPGA based prototyping. We explore a CAD based design flow keeping the challenges related to SoC in perspective.