• A RISC-V based medical implantable SOC for high voltage a current tissue stimulus 

      Arnaud Maceira, Alfredo; Gak Szollosy, Joel; García Ramírez, Ronny; Rimolo Donadio, Renato; Miguez De Mori, Matías Rafael; Puyol, Rafael; Solera Bolanos, Edgar; Castro González, Reinaldo; Molina Robles, Roberto; Chacón Rodríguez, Alfonso (IEEE, 2020)
      A RISC-V based System on Chip (SoC) for high voltage and current tissue stimulus, targeting implantable medical devices, is presented. The circuit is designed in a 0.18μm HV-CMOS process, including the RISC-V 32RVI based ...
    • An affordable post-silicon testing framework applied to a RISC-V based microcontroller 

      Molina Robles, Roberto; García Ramírez, Ronny; Chacón Rodríguez, Alfonso; Rimolo Donadio, Renato; Arnaud Maceira, Alfredo (IEEE, 2021-04)
      The RISC-V architecture is a very attractive option for developing application specific systems needing an affordable yet efficient central processing unit. Post-silicon validation on RISC-V applications has been done in ...
    • Siwa: A custom RISC-V based system on chip (SOC) for low power medical applications 

      García Ramírez, Ronny; Chacón Rodríguez, Alfonso; Molina Robles, Roberto; Castro González, Reinaldo; Solera Bolanos, Edgar; Madrigal Boza, Gabriel; Oviedo Hernández, Marco; Salazar Sibaja, Diego; Sánchez Jiménez, Dayhana; Fonseca Rodríguez, Melissa; Arrieta Solorzano, Johan; Rimolo Donadio, Renato; Arnaud Maceira, Alfredo; Miguez de Mori, Matías Rafael; Gak Szollosy, Joel (Elsevier, 2020)
      This work introduces the development of Siwa, a RISC-V RV32I 32-bit based core, intended as a flexible control platform for highly integrated implantable biomedical applications, and implemented on a commercial 0.18 𝜇m ...
    • Siwa: a RISC-V RV32I based micro-controller for implantable medical applications 

      García Ramírez, Ronny; Chacón Rodríguez, Alfonso; Castro González, Reinaldo; Arnaud Maceira, Alfredo; Miguez de Mori, Matías Rafael; Gak Szollosy, Joel; Molina Robles, Roberto; Madrigal Boza, Gabriel; Oviedo Hernández, Marco; Solera Bolanos, Edgar; Salazar Sibaja, Diego; Sánchez Jiménez, Dayhana; Fonseca Rodríguez, Melissa; Arrieta Solorzano, Johan; Rimolo Donadio, Renato (IEEE, 2020)
      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 ...
    • The RISC-V in implantable medical devices 

      Arnaud Maceira, Alfredo (RISC-V, 2019-12)
      In this work, first, the case of implantable medical devices (IMDs) will be presented including state of the art and industry overview. The main characteristics of IMD ASICs are discussed (technical, engineering, business ...