의공학에서 임베디드 시스템의 설계 및 적용

Abstract

Biomedical engineering is an application of engineering methods and design concepts to medicine and biology for health care purposes. In the past, health care purposes mostly depend on biology and chemical methods. But nowadays, with the advance of technology, scientists and engineers seek to close the gap between engineering and medicine. Combine the design, problem-solving skills, and medical biological sciences to develop health care treatment, including diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy. Meanwhile, embedded systems have also proved its important role in a vast of fields: information technology, telecommunication, electronics, … and nowadays is biomedical engineering applications like Scanning Acoustic Microscopy, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound system, ECG, EEG… Most embedded systems have microcontrollers as its core (.i.e. CPUs with integrated memory or peripheral interfaces). So they have a very small size compare to their capability. The develop of embedded system in biomedical engineering will also open a huge opportunity for the advance of public health care, where people can easily possess personal health care system or device as an acceptable price. In the scope of this thesis, the process of design a few systems for biomedical purposes will be described.