Siwa: a RISC-V RV32I based Micro-Controller for Implantable Medical Applications

R. Garcia-Ramirez, A. Chacon-Rodriguez, R. Castro-Gonzalez, A. Arnaud, M. Miguez, J. Gak, R. Molina-Robles, G. Madrigal-Boza, M. Oviedo-Hernandez, E. Solera-Bolanos, D. Salazar-Sibaja, D. Sanchez-Jimenez, M. Fonseca-Rodriguez, J. Arrieta-Solorzano, R. Rimolo-Donadio

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Abstract

The design of Siwa1, a compact low power custom system on chip (SoC), targeted for implantable/wearable applications, is reported in this paper. Siwa is based on a RISC-V RV32I architecture. It has a centrally controlled non-pipelined structure, and it includes a control interface for an integrated sensing and stimulation device for biological tissues as well as standard communication interfaces. Siwa was developed from scratch using System Verilog, and implemented in a 180nm CMOS technology; Siwa includes a latch based register file c apable to read and write in one clock cycle with an area 30% smaller and a power consumption 25% lower with respect to an equivalent flip flop implementation; also, it has an estimated average power consumption of 70μW (48pJ/cycle) which is comparable to other micro-controllers commonly used in IMD applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE 11th Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, LASCAS 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728134277
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2020
Event11th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, LASCAS 2020 - San Jose, Costa Rica
Duration: 25 Feb 202028 Feb 2020

Publication series

Name2020 IEEE 11th Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, LASCAS 2020

Conference

Conference11th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, LASCAS 2020
Country/TerritoryCosta Rica
CitySan Jose
Period25/02/2028/02/20

Keywords

  • Digital VLSI
  • IMD
  • Micro-Architecture
  • RISC-V
  • System-on-Chip

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