The invention relates to medical devices such as pacemakers, pulse generators, cardioverter-defibrillators and the like and more particularly relates to modular and reconfigurable medical
system platforms and methods of designing, testing, controlling and implementing diverse therapies, diagnostics, physiologic sensors and related
instrumentation using said medical
system platforms. Methods, systems and devices provide a new design platform for implantable and external medical devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators, neurostimulators, heart monitors, etc. A real-time, highly flexible
system of
software and
hardware modules enables both prototypes and products to respond to patient and customer needs with greater design and
manufacturing efficiency. Certain embodiments integrate a general-purpose processor with interface circuitry to provide a standard platform for implementing new and conventional therapies with
software models rather than custom circuitry. The platform described may be used as a
simulation environment, development and
test platform and / or may be used as architecture for building new medical devices.