A hardware-efficient lowpass filter design for biomedical applications

Panayiota Demosthenous, Nicoletta Nicolaou, Julius Georgiou

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Abstract

A hardware-efficient lowpass filter design technique based on an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) filter architecture is proposed for the detection of general action potentials and nerve spikes in noisy signals. The EWMA VLSI architecture is compared with a basic moving average (MA) architecture and it is found that the EWMA technique is the most economical in terms of space of the two. In addition, a rule of thumb is given for converting a MA filter to the proposed filter. In the comparison, it was found that an EWMA filter is almost 85% more hardware-efficient than an MA filter.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2010
Pages130-133
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2010 - Paphos, Cyprus
Duration: 3 Nov 20105 Nov 2010

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2010
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityPaphos
Period3/11/105/11/10

Keywords

  • Exponentially weighted moving average filter
  • Filtering
  • Low-area moving average filter implementation
  • Neural spike detection

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