Synchronization of operation of an artificial chamber supporting the sick heart of a patient has a crucial meaning for the effectiveness of support. To make the synchronized operation possible, the information on patient's heart activity should be fed to a controller of the supporting chamber. To this end, the QRS complex detector operating on ECG signal is necessary. The signal must be acquired from a patient's heart. Appropriate signal quality at long-term support may be assured only in a case the signal is acquired with epicardial electrodes. In the paper, the concept of hardware construction of a QRS complex detector has been presented, based on a field programmable analog array FPAA. The results of verification of the developed detector include the correct operation while using the epicardial signals recorded from patients which undergone the cardiosurgical operations.
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