A system including an external medical data telemetry device to communicate with an implantable medical device (IMD). The external medical data telemetry device includes a processor, a reconfigurable radio-frequency (RF) transceiver circuit, at least one far-field antenna, and a user interface. The
A system including an external medical data telemetry device to communicate with an implantable medical device (IMD). The external medical data telemetry device includes a processor, a reconfigurable radio-frequency (RF) transceiver circuit, at least one far-field antenna, and a user interface. The reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit modulates an outgoing IMD data signal and demodulates an incoming IMD data signal using a modulation type that is selectable from a plurality of modulation types by the processor. The processor selects the modulation type using information entered by a user through the user interface.
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1. A system including an external medical data telemetry device to communicate with an implantable medical device (IMD), the external medical data telemetry device comprising: a processor;a reconfigurable far field radio-frequency (RF) transceiver circuit, operable to modulate an outgoing IMD data s
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A system including an external medical data telemetry device to communicate with an implantable medical device (IMD), the external medical data telemetry device comprising: a processor;a reconfigurable far field radio-frequency (RF) transceiver circuit, operable to modulate an outgoing IMD data signal and to demodulate an incoming IMD data signal using at least one modulation type that is selectable from a plurality of configurable far field RF modulation types by the processor;at least one far-field antenna, in electrical communication with the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit, the far field antenna for RF wireless communication with an IMD using the RF modulation technique;a reconfigurable protocol layer configured to determine, according to a protocol driver, content and order of bytes of data for far field RF communication with the IMD, wherein the protocol driver is one of a plurality of protocol drivers loadable from memory that implement different byte-level protocols; anda user interface, in electrical communication with the processor, wherein the processor selects the far field RF modulation type and protocol driver using information entered by a user. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface is adapted to communicate to the processor an IMD type entered by a user, and wherein the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit implements receive demodulation and transmit modulation using the IMD type. 3. The system of claim 2, wherein the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit includes a local oscillator frequency generation circuit, wherein the local oscillator frequency generation circuit is adapted to generate at least one local oscillator frequency within a communication frequency allocation band, and wherein the communication frequency allocation band is selectable by the processor from a plurality of communication frequency allocation bands using the IMD type. 4. The system of claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to select the communication frequency allocation band using a geographic location. 5. The system of claim 2, wherein the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit is adapted to modulate data at a data rate selectable from a plurality of data rates using the IMD type. 6. The system of claim 2, comprising a physical layer that includes a programmable filter in communication with the processor, to filter one or more outgoing modulated signals and one or more incoming modulated signals, and wherein the processor is configured to select a filter from a plurality of filters using the IMD type. 7. The system of claim 2, wherein the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit includes an adjustable transmit power circuit to automatically adjust the transmit power of the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit using the IMD type. 8. The system of claim 2, wherein the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit includes an adjustable receive sensitivity circuit to automatically adjust the receive sensitivity level of the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit. 9. The system of claim 8, wherein the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit includes: a receive signal measurement circuit; andan adjustable transmit power circuit, wherein the processor circuit is adapted to automatically adjust the transmit power of the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit using a measured receive signal strength. 10. The system of claim 2, wherein the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit includes a programmable wave-shaping circuit to wave-shape an outgoing modulated signal using one of a plurality of wave-shaping functions, and wherein the processor is adapted to select a wave-shaping function for the outgoing modulated carrier signal using the IMD type. 11. The system of claim 1, comprising: at least a first and a second antennae; andan antenna control circuit, coupled to the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit and the antennae, the antenna control circuit adapted to detect a signal communication failure from the first antenna and to electrically connect the second antenna to the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit, in response to one or more signal communication failures. 12. The system of claim 11, wherein the external medical data telemetry device includes a third antenna to communicate data with a second external device. 13. The system of claim 1, comprising: a physical layer processor to assemble received data into frames and to disassemble frames for transmitting data;a protocol layer processor;a first memory in electrical communication with the protocol layer processor and the physical layer processor, to store assembled frames of received data and to store frames of data for transmission by the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit; andwherein the plurality of protocol drivers are configured for execution on the protocol layer processor, the protocol drivers stored in the first memory or a second memory in electrical communication with the protocol layer processor, wherein the protocol layer processor enables loading of one of the plurality of protocol drivers into a protocol layer processor memory using the IMD type, and wherein the protocol layer processor communicates information with the IMD by storing frames of data in the first memory for transmission to the IMD and reading frames of received IMD data from the first memory using a selected one of the protocol drivers. 14. The system of claim 13, comprising: a near-field antenna;a reconfigurable near-field transceiver circuit in electrical communication with the near-field antenna and the protocol layer processor; andwherein the protocol layer processor is adapted, upon receiving a signal from the user interface, to load the protocol drivers and to successively transmit a near field IMD interrogation message associated with various loaded protocol drivers until a response message from an IMD is received that identifies an IMD type, and to enable a far-field RF modulation type from the plurality of modulation types using the identified IMD type. 15. The system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of protocol drivers includes at least one non-proprietary protocol driver for communication with at least one second external device. 16. The system of claim 1, wherein the far field RF transceiver circuit is configurable between a frequency-shift-keying modulation type and a spread spectrum modulation type. 17. The system of claim 1, wherein the far field RF transceiver circuit is configurable between a spread spectrum modulation type and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation. 18. The system of claim 1, wherein the far field RF transceiver circuit is configurable between a phase-shift-keying modulation type and a spread spectrum modulation type. 19. The system of claim 1, wherein the external medical data telemetry device is configured to: transmit a plurality of interrogation message until a response message is received that identifies an IMD type; andconfigure the far field RF transceiver circuit using a far field RF modulation type selected from among a plurality of configurable far field RF modulation types according to the identified IMD type. 20. An external medical data telemetry device comprising: means for receiving an input into the external telemetry device;means for identifying an implantable medical device (IMD) type using the input;means for selecting at least one far-field radio frequency (RF) modulation type from a plurality of configurable far field RF modulation types selectable in the external telemetry device using the IMD type;means for reconfiguring a transceiver in the external telemetry device according to the selected modulation type;means for loading and configuring a byte-level RF communication protocol from among a plurality of memory stored byte-level RF communication protocols using the IMD type; andmeans for modulating or demodulating one or more data signals outgoing or incoming to an IMD, using the external telemetry device and the selectable far field RF modulation type.
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