arXiv:2508.19637eess.SPcs.AI2025-08中稿 · publication at 202…

为柔性可穿戴设备设计了端到端的低功耗混合信号系统。

Invited Paper: Feature-to-Classifier Co-Design for Mixed-Signal Smart Flexible Wearables for Healthcare at the Extreme Edge

  • 首创柔性电子中的模拟特征提取器,降低硬件开销。
  • 在医疗基准上实现高精度与超小面积,适合一次性设备。
  • 结合神经网络搜索思想优化特征选择,提升系统效率。

柔性电子(FE)为可穿戴医疗设备提供了轻量、贴合且低成本的替代方案,但其集成密度低、特征尺寸大,导致面积和功耗受限,使得集成了模拟前端、特征提取和分类器的机器学习系统面临挑战。现有方案多聚焦于分类器,忽视特征提取和模数转换器(ADC)带来的巨大硬件成本。本文提出一种面向柔性智能可穿戴系统的混合信号端到端共设计框架。据我们所知,首次在柔性电子中设计了模拟特征提取器,显著降低特征提取开销;进一步提出一种受神经网络搜索启发的硬件感知特征选择策略,嵌入机器学习训练中,实现高效、定制化设计。在多个医疗基准上的评估表明,该方法实现了高精度、超小面积的柔性系统,非常适合一次性、低功耗的可穿戴监测场景。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Flexible Electronics (FE) offer a promising alternative to rigid silicon-based hardware for wearable healthcare devices, enabling lightweight, conformable, and low-cost systems. However, their limited integration density and large feature sizes impose strict area and power constraints, making ML-based healthcare systems-integrating analog frontend, feature extraction and classifier-particularly challenging. Existing FE solutions often neglect potential system-wide solutions and focus on the classifier, overlooking the substantial hardware cost of feature extraction and Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs)-both major contributors to area and power consumption. In this work, we present a holistic mixed-signal feature-to-classifier co-design framework for flexible smart wearable systems. To the best of our knowledge, we design the first analog feature extractors in FE, significantly reducing feature extraction cost. We further propose an hardware-aware NAS-inspired feature selection strategy within ML training, enabling efficient, application-specific designs. Our evaluation on healthcare benchmarks shows our approach delivers highly accurate, ultra-area-efficient flexible systems-ideal for disposable, low-power wearable monitoring.

柔性电子边缘计算医疗可穿戴低功耗设计

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