The improvement of people’s living standards and the continuous population aging posts higher requirements for the innovation of medical devices. Manufacturers with advanced semiconductor technology will get an advantage. ON Semiconductor, a leading medical semiconductor products supplier, is actively enlarging layout in this luring and promising market.
Driven by the development of mobile devices, medical electronics shows mobile and intelligent trends. Correspondingly, ON Semiconductor developed a series of suit-market medical semiconductor products. For instance, the digital signal processing mixed module in ON Semiconductor’s Ayre SA3291 hearing aids adopts complete hearing aid algorithm suite, pre-configured hearing processors and NFMI high-bandwidth integrated duplex radio. The antenna is the only external component required, and can synchronize left ear and right ear parameters.
In the future, remote
medical equipment will become a necessary development direction. Since remote home monitoring devices are available to consumers without medical expertise, so the design and application of these equipments must be easy-to-operation, safe, non-invasive, compatible, reliable and low cost. To suit the above requirements, ON Semiconductor developed high-integration, miniaturized, high- efficiency, high-precision and high-reliability medical semiconductor products.
In terms of mobile health, due to the change in lifestyle and diet, Chinese diabetes show uptrend, boosting the demand for portable blood glucose meter to monitor change and communicate with doctors. ON Semiconductor’s Q32M210 32-bit precise mixed-signal microcontroller (MCU) features high precision (16-bit low noise ADC), ultra-low power consumption work (help extend battery life), high integration (reduce the overall BOM overhead of design), flexible design (enable fore-end equipment) and rich development support, which is very suitable for glucose meters and heart rate monitors and health monitoring equipment.
On the medical imaging side, high integration and strong data processing capacity is of great importance. As such, ON Semiconductor’s strategy is to provide wide-range standard and customized
CMOS image sensor. For a lot of medical diagnostic applications, ON Semiconductor’s VITA series CMOS image sensor provides high configurable, general-purpose and cost-effective imaging solutions. The excellent sensitivity applies to poor lighting conditions. LUPA series CMOS image sensor, a complementary of VITA series, offers the highest frame rate and sensitivity, showing good performance to high-quality medical imaging.
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