Towards a Mobile Health Platform with Parallel Processing and Multi-sensor Capabilities

We present ongoing work on a platform for mobile health and implantable telemetry devices with powerful point-of-contact processing capabilities based on our VivoSoC multi-sensor medical instrumentation SoC, a custom power management IC, and only a few additional components - allowing the realisation of sub-ccm devices. We detail the powerful yet efficient acquisition and parallel processing capabilities on the example of first applications, demonstrate system- and chip-level power management and address the application-layer considerations of a file system optimised for serial flash devices and job scheduling.

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