부산대학교 도서관

Approximate transform kernels have emerged as an alternative design to reduce the hardware complexity of digital signal processors by exploiting the intrinsic error resilience of many embedded consumer electronics applications such as signal, image and video processing, and computer vision. The approximate level-4 Haar wavelet transform (AxHWT-4) is the state-of-the-art approximate transform for ECG (electrocardiogram) signal processing and reduces more than nine times the energy consumption compared to the exact transform. In this work, we propose an approximate level-3 Haar wavelet transform (AxHWT-3) for increasing the hardware design efficiency with related to the AxHWT-4 while obtaining higher R-peak detection accuracy in the electrocardiogram signal. Our AxHWT-3 approximation is performed in the Haar matrix kernel to eliminate its multiplications which in the hardware design results in savings of energy consumption and VLSI hardware area. Our AxHWT3 proposal achieves an R-peak detection accuracy of more than 99% and reduces the energy consumption by 15.98 times and the VLSI area by 12.64 times compared to the exact solution (i.e., the original level-3 Haar). In addition, the proposed AxHWT3 outperforms the state-of-the-art AxHWT-4 with a savings of about 32% in power dissipation and 19.5% in VLSI area.