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Next-Generation Packaging for CRM Applications
1/31/2011
The medical profession is conservative and changes slowly; and rightly so. With the lives of patients on the line, conservatism goes hand in hand with proven safety and efficacy. But with the current healthcare...
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Advancements in MRI Architectures Reduce Design Complexity While Improving Image Quality
12/21/2010
MRI designers are leveraging advances in IC technology to create simpler designs with higher performance, greater integration, and lower power—improvements are being realized system-wide, from gradient control and...
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Single-Event Upsets (SEUs) and Medical Devices
12/14/2010
As process nodes for integrated circuits (ICs) continue to shrink, their susceptibility to single-event upsets (SEUs) due to high-energy particles rises. Specifically, it is the static RAM structures within these...
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SmartFusion in Clinical Applications: Hemodialysis Machine
12/9/2010
Clinical medical devices such as patient monitors, blood analyzers, and dialysis machines are primarily used in clinical and laboratory settings. Many of these devices are microcontroller or microprocessor based electro...
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Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs in Portable Medical Devices
12/9/2010
Home-based and consumer medical devices have traditionally been used for testing and monitoring. Examples of these devices include digital blood pressure meters, blood gas meters, and blood glucose meters. Today,...
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Putting Low Power and Flexibility Where It Matters Most: Handheld Portable Applications
12/9/2010
In the short span of three decades, electronics have not only proliferated in our world, but have also gotten smaller and more portable. The march of Moore’s Law has brought portability to the consumer, industrial...
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Incredible Shrinking Medical Devices
12/9/2010
Increasing healthcare costs, the prevalence of chronic diseases, an aging “baby boomer” community, and large emerging markets in countries such as China, India, and Brazil, are creating tremendous demand for...
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Design Made Easy With Mixed-Signal FPGAs and State of the Art Software Tools
12/9/2010
Since the early years of embedded processor design and FPGA design, silicon advancement and design techniques for each have evolved independently. In the real world there are many FPGA designs without embedded...
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Actel SmartFusion: Intelligent, Innovative Integration
12/9/2010
The whole point of an FPGA is flexibility. We could also mention integration and say instead that the whole point of an FPGA is flexibility and integration. But then there is cost savings. So the whole point of an FPGA...
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Power-Aware FPGA Design
12/9/2010
Power consumption requirements in new, autonomous, multimedia-savvy consumer products that can store, transmit, and receive information have catapulted system architects and board and chip designers into a new realm....
