dSPACE NEWS 1/2007 16 1/2007 * dSPACE GmbH * Technologiepark * D-33100 Paderborn * Germany * info@dspace.de * www.dspace.de Bypassing The Heart’s Control SterlingTech, a leader in providing innovative software solutions for medical device companies, helped a client receive a U.S. patent for an impedance sensor (a device to measure the flow of blood through the heart), after performing a series of experiments utilizing a dSPACE prototyping system, in combination with MATLAB ® and Simulink ® model-based control design software. need to be remedied as quickly as possible for cardiac patients. “The sensors that exist in today’s pacemakers are not very good at speeding up the heart when a person is moving or exercising, or slowing it down when a person is at rest,” exp

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