In this paper, we present the design of a baseband System-On-Chip for tracking applications in the medical environment based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard which can be used to track patient location in hospitals. It utilizes an ARM Cortex-M1 soft-core, 16 kb of SRAM and a bus architecture based on the AHB-Lite specification. The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC primitives are implemented in a Flash-ROM of 32 kb. The hardware verification was done in an Actel M1AFS1500 130 nm LVCMOS FPGA. The total logic usage of the FPGA was 81 % (31142 core cells). The power consumption of the IEEE 802.15.4 implementation was 25.438 mW at 1.5V power supply and 8 MHz clock rate.
De La Piedra Abenojar, A, Touhafi, A & Cornetta, G 2010, An IEEE 802.15.4 Baseband SoC for Tracking Applications in The Medical Environment Based on Actel Cortex-M1 Soft-Core. in Proceedings of 17th Annual Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux. IEEE/CVT Benelux Chapter, Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden, 21/09/09. <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5720467>
De La Piedra Abenojar, A., Touhafi, A., & Cornetta, G. (2010). An IEEE 802.15.4 Baseband SoC for Tracking Applications in The Medical Environment Based on Actel Cortex-M1 Soft-Core. In Proceedings of 17th Annual Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux IEEE/CVT Benelux Chapter. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5720467
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title = "An IEEE 802.15.4 Baseband SoC for Tracking Applications in The Medical Environment Based on Actel Cortex-M1 Soft-Core",
abstract = "In this paper, we present the design of a baseband System-On-Chip for tracking applications in the medical environment based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard which can be used to track patient location in hospitals. It utilizes an ARM Cortex-M1 soft-core, 16 kb of SRAM and a bus architecture based on the AHB-Lite specification. The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC primitives are implemented in a Flash-ROM of 32 kb. The hardware verification was done in an Actel M1AFS1500 130 nm LVCMOS FPGA. The total logic usage of the FPGA was 81 % (31142 core cells). The power consumption of the IEEE 802.15.4 implementation was 25.438 mW at 1.5V power supply and 8 MHz clock rate.",
keywords = "Medical services, Tracking, Field programmable gate arrays",
author = "{De La Piedra Abenojar}, Antonio and Abdellah Touhafi and Gianluca Cornetta",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
booktitle = "Proceedings of 17th Annual Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux",
publisher = "IEEE/CVT Benelux Chapter",
note = "Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet ; Conference date: 21-09-2009 Through 25-09-2009",
}