Implementation of Low Delay Dual Chamber Pacemaker Using Verilog

Abstract

This paper presents a hardware implementation of Dual Chamber Cardiac Pacemaker for different ranges of heart beats with minimum delay. Proposed research work attempts to design and implement a low delay dual chamber demand pacemaker. Pacemakers are used for life-threatening disease such as arrhythmia. A minimum delay between sensing and pacing is very crucial for maintaining the adequate heart rate. Therefore the main motive of this work is to reduce the delay between sensing and pacing of the pacemaker. The demand pacemaker works in accordance with the heart rate of the patient who is suffering from arrhythmia and its range may be different for different patients. The range from 30 beats per minute (bpm) to 70 beats per minute (bpm) has been taken for the proposed work. The tool used for the proposed low delay dual chamber pacemaker is Xilinx 14.7. The result shows that the proposed work is better in terms of delay, computational complexity, and cost.