Hardware-Algorithms Co-Design and Implementation of an Analog-to-Information Converter for Biosignals Based on Compressed Sensing

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Hardware-Algorithms Co-Design and Implementation of an Analog-to-Information Converter for Biosignals Based on Compressed Sensing

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149

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162

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August 2015

Fabio Stefanini; Pierluigi Albertini; Giovanni Frattini; Mauro Mangia; Riccardo Rovatti; Gianluca Setti

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We report the design and implementation of an Analog-to-Information Converter (AIC) based on Compressed Sensing (CS). The system is realized in a CMOS 180 nm technology and targets the acquisition of bio-signals with Nyquist frequency up to 100 kHz. To maximize performance and reduce hardware complexity, we co-design hardware together with acquisition and reconstruction algorithms. The resulting AIC outperforms previously proposed solutions mainly thanks to two key features. First, we adopt a novel method to deal with saturations in the computation of CS measurements. This allows no loss in performance even when 60% of measurements saturate. Second, the system is able to adapt itself to the energy distribution of the input by exploiting the so-called rakeness to maximize the amount of information contained in the measurements.

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F. Pareschi, P. Albertini, G. Frattini, M. Mangia, R. Rovatti and G. Setti, "Hardware-Algorithms Co-Design and Implementation of an Analog-to-Information Converter for Biosignals Based on Compressed Sensing," in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 149-162, Feb. 2016, doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2015.2444276.