Design and Implementation of RISC-V based Pacemaker

Abstract

Heart failures are highly increasing in modern times, regardless of patients' age or genders. Arrhythmia is a severe cardiac condition that affects roughly 5% of the world's population and causes severe damage to patients and may result in death. There is just one solution to this problem that is to regulate your heart rate. A pacemaker is an implanted medical device, which is already available on the market. However, the existing device consumes more power, ranging from 60 micro watts to 100 micro watts. Here, this research work suggests using RISC-V CPU to minimize power and area. The proposed design of RISC-V based pacemaker is implemented using 90nm technology node. The proposed RISC-V model consumes 4.053223 microwatts when compared with existing pacemaker.