Experts discuss China CMET2010: medical electronics industry

Gaining insight into innovative design and manufacturing techniques, keep the medical electronics market opportunities

"In the medical electronics field, the ' China increasing globalization, the world is becoming more and more Chinese ' trend is very clear that China's medical electronics manufacturers want to grasp the current opportunities in technology and market two breakthrough.

"Recently sponsored by creative time the third China International Medical Electronics Assembly (CMET2010), from medical electronic analysis institutions, total, IC and components, industrial design, manufacturing industry and other experts together, China medical electronics industry contributions into the plan.

Deep analysis of the industry development opportunities and challenges

With the national health awareness and economic level, medical electronics market has always been to close to 15% compound annual growth rate of high lead in other areas.

In China, the medical electronics industry started relatively late, but development speed is very fast. CMET2010, senior analyst isuppli Isacc Wang pointed out that, in 2006, China medical electronics market accounted for only 4% of the global market, but is expected to 2013 will reach 9%, to become the world's most dazzling medical electronic stage.

Medical electronics market has always been to close to 15% compound annual growth rate of high lead in other areas

In numerous medical electronics market segment, Isacc Wang pointed out that the images and home market performance of portable products is the most eye-catching.

Coincidentally, this view and invasive e era medical electronics (www.medical.cetimes.com) for a professional audience CMET2010 conducting a questionnaire survey of statistical data. There are 27% and 23% of the professional audience that image type and physical diagnostic products is the most development potential.

CMET2010 one professional audience survey results

Good market is expected to make many common electronic device manufacturers on the blue sea hopes, but quickly changing market situation, the intricacies of the industrial environment, industry access regulations ...

But in front of them erected a invisible threshold. The Committee of experts for medical devices industry senior experts and Wang Xiao-Qing, Ph.d., presented the "medical device industry and its top ten constraints" that caused a participating professional audience of powerful repercussions. In his address that at present, China medical device industry faces including new product marketing costs too much, too stringent and restrictive policies or are not in place, industrial development, lack of guidance, based on strategic innovation system is not perfect, competitive conditions, the market is not normative, development mode closed, lack of professional talent, product support is not strong enough, reliability concerns, the top ten constraints. At the same time, Wang Xiao-Qing also on these constraints in depth analysis, and response strategies.

Sharing a comprehensive solution for portable medical

Invasive e era medical electronics (www.medical.cetimes.com) for a professional audience CMET2010 conducting a questionnaire survey of statistics display respectively 30% and 22% of the professional audience believe in the current portable medical electronic equipment and development process, most need to be addressed is the precision and stability, and cost control.

In this CMET2010, including Freescale, NXP, ADI, TI, Murata, many quite industry influence of semiconductor and component manufacturers have brought on the basis of their own advantages of low power, low cost, high performance portable medical solutions, has been fully participating professional audience.

CMET2010 professional audience survey bis

NXP semiconductors in greater China, HPMS business micro controller product lines and applications marketing director Kim Woo-Kit more interpretation based on NXP HPMS high performance analog technology portable medical solution highly integrated, fast and precise operation ability; easy to carry, small size; safe and stable power supply three advantages.

Freescale Asia Pacific medical e-Marketing Manager, Gordon the lecture which focused on the high-performance sensor products, and present professional audience share is based on the Freescale pressure sensor, acceleration sensor and inertial sensor of the latest medical electronic products and low-power digital solutions. ADI has launched on the market today are quite popular Pulse Oximeter solution, ADI Asia Pacific medical business senior business manager Zhou Wen sheng meticulous introduced the programme from the principle, to chip selection of one-stop solution. But already in the medical electronics products in the ' TI MSP430 series products to their full mature solutions won the undisputed design engineers. As a renowned industry components suppliers – Murata, with its unique complete product line for medical applications launched a series of excellent solutions, and on device selection gives valuable advice.

ARM DSP FPGA & &, medical electronics platform letting

"MINDRAY for processor platform choice has two seemingly contradictory principles: the ' many ' and ' less '.

Where ' number ' refers to the diversity, according to the characteristics of the platform for rational collocation can make products more competitive. ' Little ' refers to the greatest extent possible to reduce processor type, reducing development and investment in human resources, as well as the manufacturing of trouble. "Yao force in share of CMET2010 MINDRAY select processor platform strategies represent the vast majority of medical electronics manufacturers.

In CMET2010, Freescale, NXP, TI, ADI, Actel, Xilinx, processor vendors to demonstrate their product characteristics and advantages of the platform, and hope that their products can reach the medical electronics manufacturers "more" and the "little" standards for medical electronics to stability for its order.

Debut in the Assembly include: NXP of processors from the M3, M4 M0 to a number of different location and function of the 32-bit MCU; flyFreescale is suitable for development with the series of high and low product compatible with the PIN, you can seamlessly upgrade from 8 to 32-bit MCU; TI integrates the signal chain, power management, display drive components, also have TI-specific low power DSP technology and complex algorithm MSP430 series; ADI design oriented medical electronic fast solution of veneer; by Xilinx to provide lower cost and volume, more IO interfaces, a more flexible configuration and upgrade path for Actel FPGA; and shall have the power, features such as firmware error immunity of FPGA based on Flash technology.

Remove the above platforms, commonly used in medical electronics also X86 and GPU etc platform, medical electronics processor platform diversity features also make this market a hundred scenes: manufacturers are giving full play to its own technology, specializing in more suitable for their own product application market, one should also be more adequate cooperation, so that the end product manufacturers to match more easily.

Manufacturing design — design and manufacture of the balance between departments

As noted above, the diversity of platforms can be a headache for manufacturing, this requires the design and manufacturing departments of good communication.

Especially in today's globalized environment, product design and manufacturing can be in different companies, different research and Development Center, design and manufacture of balance, manufacturability and design into consideration must be given. In particular, technology CMET2010 workshop, Flextronics headquarters technical department, Senior Vice President, Dr East armored shangguan United States Indium Thai Corporation Vice President Li Ning Cheng, Hong Kong applied science and Technology Research Institute Dr. Although LEUNG Wai on their respective topics vary, but all share a link to the manufacturability and design for this global problem.

Shangguan Dr East armored, miniaturized package and Assembly technology including SoC and SiP, multi-chip stacked/POP, buried resistance lying capacity, flexible circuit board Assembly and more diverse choice, designers can be based on different technology advantages and drawbacks to be chosen to achieve the batch production of convenient and low-cost destination.

If you are unsure about using the above technologies to manufacture the problem, you can use the Hong Kong applied science and Technology Research Institute recommended method: use common processes and most reliability experiments for virtualization, through software simulations for manufacturability of validation.

LEUNG Wai colleagues Dr. Dr Xie bin, by simulating the test method, the development of a new package type only need three months or so, and the use of traditional methods at this time is 12 months, you can save a large number of trial production costs.

Through the virtual manufacturing and testing can dramatically reduce product development time and cost

In addition to the adoption of technology choice and virtual testing, Li Ning Cheng says, you can also upgrade through the materials technology and improved the design of the increase in manufacturing.

As in the lead-free solder in doped Bi, In, Zn or even gold, silver elements help to lower the temperature, reduces welding on the destruction of the product, and the flux of oxidation resistance test, to increase the solder wettability, conducted by doping alloy and so on material technology slow wetting also can increase production yield, further to enhance medical electronics design for manufacturability and reliability purposes.

In addition to these experts, Microsoft Senior Technical Marketing Manager Ling ling, red_hot Business Development Manager Keith peak, Rococo Shenzhen Company General Manager Li, Yi Chiu, Flextronics Beijing Branch Project Manager car Wenhua, Siemens hearing instruments product manager Qu Tang Chau is also in the medical electronics and embedded software, Flash design, industrial design, medical electronics innovation technology in an in-depth analysis.

Kim Seung Yang and shiqiang telecommunications were also showcased at the Conference for the medical electronics industry power module and test instruments. According to the organizers introduce creative era, the Conference set the perfect topic has been praised by the participating agents, two days attracted more than 600 participants from the medical electronics industry managers and developers to create e-era-NET (www.cetimes.com) created by live also attracted numerous engineers online participation.