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Invited Paper: Feature-to-Classifier Co-Design for Mixed-Signal Smart Flexible Wearables for Healthcare at the Extreme Edge

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  • Haebom

Author

Maha Shatta, Konstantinos Balaskas, Paula Carolina Lozano Duarte, Georgios Panagopoulos, Mehdi B. Tahoori, Georgios Zervakis

Outline

This paper presents a mixed-signal feature-classifier co-design framework for the design of flexible front-end (FE) systems for wearable healthcare devices. Unlike existing FE solutions that focus solely on the classifier, this study takes a system-wide approach to address area and power constraints in ML-based healthcare systems by integrating an analog front-end, feature extraction, and classifier. Specifically, we design an analog feature extractor for the first time in FE, significantly reducing feature extraction costs, and enable application-specific designs through a hardware-aware NAS-based feature selection strategy. Healthcare benchmark evaluations demonstrate the implementation of a high-precision, ultra-low-area, and efficient flexible system, making it suitable for disposable, low-power wearable monitoring.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Presenting an innovative mixed-signal co-design framework for designing flexible electronics-based wearable healthcare systems.
Improving system efficiency by first implementing an analog feature extractor in FE.
Application-specific design possible through hardware-aware NAS-based feature selection strategy.
High-precision, ultra-low-area, low-power flexible system implementation presents the possibility of disposable wearable monitoring.
Limitations:
Further research is needed on the practical application of the proposed framework to wearable devices and its long-term stability.
Generalizability to various healthcare applications and sensor types needs to be verified.
Lack of detailed information on the design and implementation of analog feature extractors.
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