Core Tip : The rising demand for telemedicine diagnosis and home health care has stimulated the rise of the medical semiconductor market and brought huge business opportunities to the medical electronics industry. From a regional perspective, the Asia-Pacific region is the most important market for the adoption of medical ICs. The demand for ICs in remote diagnostics, portable medical, high-end medical imaging and other fields has increased significantly, bringing development opportunities to distributors. This article brings together the excellent technical solutions recently launched by the three excellent distributors of General Assembly, Junlong and Hengcheng Technology, from which we can easily find some hot markets for medical electronics in the future.
As the world's population is aging, people's health care awareness is rising, and the rising demand for remote medical diagnosis and home health care has stimulated the rise of the medical semiconductor market, bringing huge business opportunities to the medical electronics industry. IC Insights data shows that the industrial / medical IC market reached 15.2 billion US dollars in 2012. With the strong growth of market demand, the development momentum of the medical IC market in the next decade remains strong. In terms of regions, the Asia-Pacific region is the most important market for the adoption of medical ICs. The demand for ICs in remote diagnostics, portable medical, high-end medical imaging and other fields has increased significantly, bringing development opportunities for original manufacturers and distributors.
In this issue of planning, we have assembled three outstanding distributors from different regions, focusing on medical electronics, and recently launched outstanding technical solutions. Carefully analyze the types of application products they choose, as well as the agent product lines they use, from which we can easily find some hot markets in medical electronics in the future.
Remote diagnosis application: wrist watch monitor based on Bluetooth protocol
Guo Song, Group Manager of Youshang Group
Guo Song, Group Manager of Friends Group of the United University of China, said that this year, the United Nations Group will focus on the three major directions of the medical market, namely: focusing on family doctors and health cabins (remote diagnosis), focusing on miniaturization and familyization (portable medical), focusing on Medical industry industrial upgrading (high-end imaging). Today, with more and more developed networks and information, you can enjoy medical treatment by famous doctors at home without having to wait in line for long distances, avoiding the worry of queuing up for registration. A variety of portable physiological diagnosis and monitoring equipment were born. Medical diagnosis platforms built by medical equipment manufacturers, network operators and hospitals can integrate and utilize the entire medical market and resources. Guo Song pointed out that Youshang is just looking at this opportunity, so increase market research and customer promotion in portable medical and remote diagnosis, and lock in terminal applications, such as wrist watch monitors for tracking individual physiological characteristics, portable for family medical Oximeter, blood glucose meter, etc.
In medical applications, the TI products represented by Youshang have obvious advantages, such as: high precision, low power consumption, customized analog front ends for proprietary fields, and overall solutions that support wireless technology (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) Wait. All these will help manufacturers shorten the product design cycle and make differentiated products that are different from their competitors in the shortest time, so as to preempt the market.
Among the many medical electronic product solutions launched recently, Guo Song recommended a wrist watch monitor based on the Bluetooth protocol. This is a portable solution that integrates blood pressure and ECG detection functions. It is connected to the system platform through Bluetooth to complete the relevant data transmission. At the same time, the remote medical platform is used to track and analyze the transmitted data to complete the monitoring and pathological characteristics of the patient. diagnosis. This solution uses TI's integrated analog front end ADS1191 and TI's true single-chip BLE SoluTIon CC2541 to achieve product miniaturization and low power consumption, which is suitable for home monitoring with a remote medical platform. Compared with the previously used discrete solutions, this solution has achieved a very good increase in cost and cost performance, simplified the design, and improved detection accuracy and accuracy.
Guo Song introduced that this is a set of TI-based LM3S811-IQN50-C2T main processor, cooperate with TI's latest medical analog front-end ADS1191 to do front-end medical data collection program. ADS1191 is an integrated analog front-end that integrates ECG front-end sampling processing module and on-chip temperature detection. It collects the user's heart rate and passes it to the processor for further data processing. The Bluetooth part of the back end uses TI's low-power Bluetooth solution CC2541. By transmitting the collected data to CC2541, the patient information is sent to the IPAD or other portable terminals via the Bluetooth protocol, and finally the APP on the portable terminal sends the medical information to the medical platform. Data transparent transmission.
"Currently this solution is one of our end customers and mobile operators talking about the entire remote platform and marketing cooperation, we will provide products and solutions to customer support (such as wireless Bluetooth technical support, analog front-end signal conditioning , Optimized design of power supply). "Guo Song introduced that the current known marketing method of the program is as a major convenience medical in the promotion of 3G applications by China Mobile. It is piloted in some cities. The medical resource is 311 Hospital in Beijing . At present, the program is under construction in the initial marketing and platform of the operator, and it is expected to bring in sales of nearly US $ 500,000 in 2013.
Portable medical applications: solutions for multi-parameter monitors
Li Jie, product manager of Junlong Technology, said that Junlong ’s main target market is portable medical. This market has developed very rapidly in recent years, and the Chinese have long been freed from the idea of ​​large size and high-end equipment, and many medical company products are developing portable. However, portable products rely heavily on battery power, so low power consumption is particularly important. Li Jie introduced that in response to the low power consumption requirements, Junlong provided Altera with the latest 28nm low power FPGA and SOC products to ensure high performance under the premise of low power consumption, in the main control, data processing and data Excellent performance in transmission.
In the past, the solution of mid-to-high-end multi-parameter monitors was MCU / ARM + FPGA. The main control, algorithm and human-machine interface functions were implemented by ARM. The FPGA realized the interface with multiple parameter modules and the LCD screen driver. Choose the outsourcing method, the interface is UART. What Li Jie recommended on behalf of Junlong was the integrated solution implemented with Altera SOC products. SOC product features include: (1) Monolithic integrated ARM and FPGA, ARM is CortexA9, single and dual core optional; FPGA logic density is also available in multiple levels; (2) SOC products integrate multiple interface protocols, such as: USB, Ethernet, CAN and SDIO, etc. (3) SOC products use TSMC's latest 28nm process to ensure high performance output with low power consumption. Therefore, in order to facilitate customers to do early product verification, Junlong has developed a development board for SoC devices-Cyclone V SoC FPGA Base Board.
The main features of the development board include: 1) USB online debugging port; 2) 256M DDR3 can achieve 32-bit wide; 3) 128M QSPI Flash; 4) USB 2.0 OTG; 5) Gigabit Ethernet; 6) UART; 7) I2C; 8) DIP switch; 9) GPIO; 10) HSMC (leading to multiple pairs of LVDS and high-speed transceivers).
Li Jie introduced that manufacturers can use ARM in SoC to implement algorithms and master control, verify the LCD driver through the LVDS derived from the HSMC port; GPIO implements human-computer information interaction (mouse, keyboard, etc.); DDR3 implements temporary data cache; Flash storage test Data; FPGA realizes the interface of data collection of parameter board and database module. In addition to the above hardware, Altera provides 15 video image processing IPs to help customers easily achieve zooming, cropping, and aliasing of the graphical interface. It also provides 3D image acceleration functions to make the interface display more intuitive.
Li Jie believes that in terms of the current medical market demand, the key condition to enter this market is an integrated solution with low power consumption and high integration. At this point, Altera's SOC products are very suitable for this market. It is reported that Junlong will jointly promote the program with Altera and provide a full range of technical support.
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