System On-Chip (SoC) Design of Signal Processing Unit for Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator

In today’s modern lifestyle, stress has become a major part. Due to changing lifestyle and food habits, cardiac problems have become a major threat to human life. Cardiac arrest, arrhythmias and dysrhythmias are some of the common medical complications witnessed in humans. They are the medical complexities, wherein the heart beats at an abnormal rate. Defibrillators play a major role in treating cardiac problems. It is intended to treat arrhythmias and dysrhythmias. One of the recent advancements in the field of wearable defibrillators is the wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD). The project aims at developing an SoC for signal processing of this wearable defibrillator application. Instead of having individual modules, integrating them to a single one will reduce the size of the defibrillator, thereby reducing the cost and weight too.