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There are several situations where it is necessary to acquire analog signals, like sensors outputs and bioelectrical signals, with different amplitudes and frequency ranges. The FPAA (Field Programmable Analog Array) is a semiconductor device that allows the creation of several analog circuits. The Arduino is a platform for rapid development with microcontrollers, well known and widely used to build experimental and commercial equipment. Given the above, the objective of this work was to create a hardware board (shield) and a software library to use an FPAA in conjunction with Arduino boards. In one test, we implemented a band-pass filter and obtained between the projected and measured frequency response an average error of 0.027 dB (SD = 0.163 dB). The maximum error was 0.265 dB. In another test, we implemented a circuit to capture the ECG signal. The results of the ECG test were satisfactory. This research introduces a significant contribution to bioelectrical signal acquisition since similar works do not exist.
Supported by the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) and by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil.
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de Souza, L.F., Iaione, F., Ju, S.T. (2022). Reconfigurable Arduino Shield for Biosignal Acquisition. In: Rojas, I., Valenzuela, O., Rojas, F., Herrera, L.J., Ortuño, F. (eds) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. IWBBIO 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13346. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07704-3_20
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