1 Intro
2
Electrocardiogram (
Ecg
) Signals
The Electrocardiogram (
Ecg
)
•
Ecg
: electrical manifestation of heart activity recorded
from the body surface
•
monitoring of heart rate
The
Ecg
signal can be recorded fairly easily with surface
electrodes placed on the limbs and/or the chest, see pages
6
–
16
below.
Josef Goette
2
2009
2 System Description
2.4 Processor STM32F103RB from STMicroelectronics
2.4.1 Features
The STM32F103RB from STMicroelectronics is a processor with a ARM 32-bit Cortex-M3 CPU
and peripherals. STMicroelectronics is reshaping the 16/32-bit MCU market with they’r STM32
family.
The key benefits of the STM32F103RB are:
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Leading performance, real time behavior
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A lot of peripherals
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Outstanding power efficiency
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In production since 2007
7→
proved design
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70 part numbers across 4 product lines
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SW Libraries are free available from
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Core: CPU clock internal up to 72Mhz, single-cycle multiplication and hardware division
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Memory: 128KBytes flash, 20KByte ram and memory controller
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LCD parallel interface
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Low power states (sleep, stop and standby)
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7 DMA channels
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RTC
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WDT
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PWM
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3x Timers and SysTick
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Communication interface:
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2x SPI
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2x I2C
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3x I2S
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3x USART
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USB 2.0
–
CAN
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Up to 51 GPIO (multiplexed with peripherals, 5V tolerable [but not for analog inputs!])
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2x ADC 12 bit
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Operating voltage 2.0-3.6V
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Temperature: -40C +85C
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Debugging: JTAG and serial wire interface
A lot of information, data sheets and examples can be found at
http://www.st.com/mcu/familiesdocs-110.html
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STM32 Cortex-M3 Tutorial