A FPGA implementation of a DCT-based digital electrocardiographic signal compression device

B.S. Pimentel, J.H. de Avila Valgas Filho, R.L. Campos, A.O. Fernandes, C.J. Nunes Coelho
Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design  
The use of portable Electrocardiographic (ECG) recording devices is directly dependent on the amount of physical memory available. Common recording techniques using enough bit encoding at a normal sampling rate can take as much as 80 Mbytes of storing space for a whole 24-hour period. This paper describes a simpl$ed implementation of a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) algorithm for digital signal compression to be implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. Theoretic
more » ... ratios of 7:l are expected, enabling the use ofportable 16-Mbyte non-volatile memory cards.
doi:10.1109/sbcci.2001.953002 fatcat:qttettxrpjcx5bsn65ab2wpuza