  An electrocardiogram (ECG) feature extraction system has been developed and
evaluated using Virtex-6 FPGA kit which belongs to Xilinx Ltd. In time domain,
Pan-Tompkins algorithm is used for QRS detection and it is followed by a
feature extractor block to extract ECG features. This whole system can be used
to detect cardiac arrhythmia. The completed algorithm was implemented on
Virtex-6(XC6VLX240-T) device and tested using hardware co-simulation in
Modelsim and simulink environment. The software generated ECG signals are
obtained from MIT-BIH arrhythmia Database [1]. The memory and time complexities
of the implemented design were recorded and feature extraction has been done.
We have achieved satisfactory results which is mainly due to parallel
implementation. Therefore accurate arrhythmia detection using hardware
implementation a viable approach.
