Development of a digital signal processor-based new 12-lead synchronization electrocardiogram automatic analysis system

This paper presents a digital signal processor (DSP)-based new multichannel electrocardiogram (ECG) system for 12-lead synchronization ECG automatic analysis in real-time with high sampling rate at 1000 Hz and 12-bits precision. Using the hardware structure of double-CPU based on Microprocessor (MPU) 89C55 and DSP TMS320F206 combines the powerful control ability of MPU with DSPs fast computation ability. Fully utilizing the double-CPUs resource, the system can distribute the reasonable CPU-time for the real-time tasks of multichannel synchronization ECG sampling, digital filter, data storing, waveform automatic analysis and print at high sampling rate. The digital ECG system has the advantages of simple structure, sampling with high speed and precision, powerful real-time processing ability and good quality. The paper discusses the system's principle and the skilful hardware design, also gives the ECG processing using the fast simple integer-coefficient filter method and the automatic calculation algorithms of the ECG parameters such as heart rate, P-R interval, Q-T interval and deflexion angle of ECG-axis etc. The system had been successfully tested and used in the ECG automatic analysis instrument. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.