The course is held almost entirely in the Electronic Teaching Laboratory.
This part of the Biomedical Instrumentation course is dedicated to the design, simulation, manufacturing and testing of a board for electrocardiogram signal acquisition (ECG).
The aim of the course is to provide students with all the necessary instruments to carry out the complete design flow of an electronic board starting from a project idea.
The very first lessons are dedicated to an electronic review, which follows a different philosophy from the one which is usually pursued in traditional courses. In fact we will follow a “bottom-up” approach, starting from our final project needs and building the circuits which we potentially need by making mistakes and learning from them, up to the final versions reaching in this way a deep knowledge of why they are like that and a solid theory behind it. Then, specifically, we will see how to choose the components according to the needs of the application (passive components, low noise amplifiers, op-amp, regulators, etc.), design and size the necessary stages (amplifiers, filters, feedback loops, power supplies) according to their specifications (signal dynamics, noise, linearity), simulate them (DC analysis, AC analysis, transient analysis) with a professional software (Orcad CIS) and realize the PCB layout (Orcad Layout).
After this first phase, we will physically realize the PCB in the PCB Lithography Laboratory, we will solder the components (SMA and through hole) and proceed with the testing helped by a data acquisition board (STM32 or Arduino) and PC software (Matlab).

These are Silvia Roncelli's SLIDES
which are projected in the Laboratory during the
Biomedical Instrumentation Lectures in the 1st Semester.

STRUMENTAZIONE BIOMEDICA... Now the fun begins...

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
check frequently the Website of the course of
STRUMENTAZIONE BIOMEDICA

KIRO: elearning2.unipv.it/ingegneria/course

e-mail - Prof.ssa Giulia Matrone
giulia.matrone@unipv.it