Actel dealing with medical equipment of the trend for miniaturization and portable

Actel Corporation announced the company's mixed signals Fusion and low-power IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGA series, to assist medical equipment designers in developing small and portable trend of frontier.

Actel to Flash-based FPGA with ultra-low power consumption, high reliability, high integration and small occupying area and upgrade security advantages, so that they become intelligent system and power management and a variety of interfaces, displays, communication and storage control, as well as micro-controller functions don't attractive choice. Actel also published in the medical applications of several successful examples of covers from home testing and monitoring devices and clinical equipment and imaging applications.

Gartner Dataquest market research institutes in the 2008 report notes that the response of medical electronic semiconductor market in 2008 is expected around 34.2 billion.

By 2012, this figure is expected to be $ 44.8 billion, and FPGA will account for more than $ 3.23.

Actel marketing and business development VP Rich Kapusta said: "today, medical device manufacturers are moving an entire system into a Palm-size (or smaller) portable device.

Therefore, highly integrated, low power consumption, small size and high reliability is required to meet the battery specifications, reduce the design area, ensure reliable operation and will heat dissipation is minimal. Actel Fusion of mixed-signal and low-power IGLOO FPGA that provides these advantages brought for designers to design the next generation of medical applications of optional programmes. ”

Home test and monitoring equipment

Health care is moving towards family application, usually by a battery-powered home infusion pump, respiratory therapy products and portable blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure monitors, and so on, require low-power, small size and high reliability.

Actel's single-chip mixed signal Fusion FPGA provides unprecedented high integration, to achieve household device testing and monitoring systems, power and thermal management — from system power down/power function to data logging and temperature sensing.

Because household medical devices require low power and extend battery life, with ultra-low power consumption Freeze mode and Flash * feature rich Actel IGLOO FPGA W 5 µ can provide for designers as low as $ 17 minutes of competing solutions in power consumption.

In the insulin pump, Actel IGLOO by ultra low-power FPGA can add extra glue logic and multi-functional – from human-machine interface (HMI), display, communication, storage and communication control and the micro-controller feature – introduction of a single package, saving materials, circuit board space, power consumption and costs.

Clinical equipment

Many clinical applications such as diagnostic laboratory equipment, DDS (drug delivery system), go to the automatic external defibrillator (AED) and hemodialysis machines, from the mixed signal FPGA provides a highly integrated and functional benefit.

For example, in surgical robot system, Actel Fusion of mixed signal FPGA can handle system management and control functions, and using its embedded Flash for data logging, or using the simulation function module (analog quad) ADC, temperature and voltage sensing.

Actel low power Flash-based FPGA has a different density, performance and features, it also applies to the application of clinical equipment.

Last year, China's leading medical device developers and manufacturers of Actel MINDRAY medical selection to Flash-based ProASIC3 FPGA for its portable patient monitoring systems, because these FPGA with ultra-low power consumption, high performance, reliability and high security advantages.

Imaging applications

While some medical devices still use wall power, portable trend is on the portable ultrasound imaging system had a significant impact, as a result, these applications need not only to extend the battery life, you also need high power and high efficiency of memory access.

Due to the low power consumption, reliability, and small package on the growing importance of portable imaging applications, Actel IGLOO FPGA of ultra-low power consumption has been selected in the next generation of portable imaging devices used to process the device and resets the management capabilities that provide energy and prolong the battery life.