Design and Analysis of Academic Dual Chamber Pacemakers

In this paper, we describe a relatively inexpensive framework for the design of an academic dual chamber pacemaker that can be used to empirically analyze different pacemaker designs. The goal of this framework is to provide a convenient platform that can be used for research and teaching in realtime embedded system design. The framework can also be used for model-driven development of pacemaker software, and to demonstrate the safety and liveness property violations that may result during the design of real-time pacemaker software.