Case Study

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.

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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