Healthcare Technology Design

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: B1. Gain an appreciation of ethical considerations and approval processes, and gain ethical approval for a project involving human subjects. B2. Integrate and debug hardware and software systems, and appreciate the special problems that occur when both domains are combined. B3. Understand and interpret technical literature and data sheets.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: C1. Write formal reports in a clear, technical style. C2. Appreciate the challenges and constrains in recording data from, and interfacing with human subjects. C3. Appreciate challenges and constraints in developing an integrated system using heterogeneous systems. C3. Address problems associated with personal and group time management in a problem solving environment. C4. Demonstrate an awareness of team structure and dynamics, together with an appreciation of individual responsibilities working both as a pair and in a larger grouping.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: D1. Use of function generators, oscilloscopes and complex devices. D2. Capturing a heterogeneous set of data from multiple sensors. D3. Construct and test a range of circuits. D4. Complex hardware architecture implementation in FPGA platform

Cognitive Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: F1. Architecture design of a digital IC F2. Process flow of IC design and its real-life implementation F3. Choose appropriate sensors to address a healthcare problem and design the interface between the set of sensors and the data collection system. F4. Analyse and display data appropriate to the healthcare professional in user friendly and interpretable way.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: A1. The principles of operation of a range of electronic devices and healthcare monitoring wearable sensors. A2. The problems associated with designing practical circuits and systems. A3. Methodology to design a decision support system consolidating sensor data. A4. VLSI hardware implementation process flow and implementation strategies

Part of existing ELEC 2225 module:

Existing D3 exercise (https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/elec2205/D3/)

Existing D6 exercise (https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/elec2225/D6/)

New design exercise D7 for implementing ECG delineation algorithm developed in the 1st year as part of ELEC 1212 on real hardware - high level hardware coding, synthesis and implementation in FPGA platform. A range of tool set will be learned such as signal processing tool (Matlab), Hardware description language (SystemVerilog), Hardware implementation platform (FPGA).

This module will be delivered as a combination of exercise specific lectures, exercise specific self-study online materials and labworks for actual exercises.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.