
Wireless medical ASIC
A medical ASIC for capturing and processing vital signs measurements and transmitting using Bluetooth Low-Energy includes sophisticated power management with nW standby power.
Features
Sensor interfaces for ECG, respiration, pulse rate and temperature measurement
32-bit Arm Cortex M0 MCU
2.4GHz BLE and IEEE 802.15.6 radio
Cryptographic accelerator for AES, ECC, RSA, SHA
AMBA peripherals include I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO
Custom analog design SMPS, LDOs, PLL, RTC Oscillator, BLE RF
Sophisticated nW power management, including:
Sub-1V operation
Multiple power domains and islands
Process
65 nm
DFT
Full-Scan, MBIST and Boundary scan
Tool - Chain
Synopsys DC Ultra, ICC, Formality, PrimeTime-SI/PX
Mentor Calibre nmDRC/LVS, xACT
Cadence for Analog/RF design
Xilinx FPGA prototyping

