China's population aging process continued to speed up: According to the Outlook of the United Nations World Population, China's 60-year-old population accounted for 12.3%, which is expected to increase to 24.4% in 2030, and 33.9% of 2050 or even . At the same time, with the improvement of people's living standards, the expected life is growing, which will pay more attention to medical and health care, and the outpatient / home health will become more common. Moreover, the population is aging or will gain a higher incidence of heart disease, diabetes, asthma, coupled with the Chinese government plan to achieve national medical insurance, etc., China's medical equipment industry will continue to develop.
At present, the China Medical Equipment Market is scattered, and it is only dominated by a few large medical equipment companies such as Metri, Jin Kewei, Omron, and the market potential is huge. Many small companies are also aiming at this market, competing to develop innovative medical solutions. Therefore, the development trend of medical equipment includes adding "intelligence" and data storage features, portable, wireless / connection schemes, human area networks, etc. Medical semiconductors have undoubtedly play a leading role in the innovation of medical equipment / programs, facing higher integration, miniaturization, and high energy development, while turning consumer medical equipment to adopt standard components and embed wireless function.
Ann Many Semiconductor introduces silicon into life
Ansian Semiconductors help medical technology developers to solve their unique design challenges with high performance silicon solutions. As a healthy member of the Health Alliance, the Anshen American Semiconductor High Skills System Architect, Design, Package and Test Engineer, with rich intellectual property (IP) lineup, own factory, with comprehensive silicon experience with more than 30 years, Product lineup and service, including: customized hybrid signal-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), special standard product (ASSP), medical grade discrete component, hearing aid digital signal processing (DSP) system, customized and semi-custom ultra-low power memory For system-miniaturized advanced packages, additional solution services, etc., its development kits, software packages, product libraries, etc. guarantee completely qualified and strong development processes, product service life supports extended product life cycles, data can be tracked and saved The quality is an ISO 13485 medical system and sets up a fault analysis laboratory and can be tested in batches.
The focus of the Ansian Semiconductor's key medical segment enlarges the implant, hearing health and clinical and designated equipment.
Implant
Incidental applications mainly include defibrillators and cardiac, neural stimulators, injectable monitors, and suction electrons. Ann Many Semiconductors provide ASIC, memory, discrete components, modules, and wafer foundry services for such applications.
Taking an implanted neurostimulator as an example, Ansen American semiconductor provides an integrated controller, memory, digital, analog, and high voltage single-chip scheme, using multi-channel surge suppressor (TSS) further significantly reduces the number of differential components (usually IC The number of dies is reduced from 3-4 to 1-2), which helps reduce the space occupied by board, simplifying equipment manufacturing and logistics, reducing cost and power consumption, and reducing the dependence on system / circuit board, and improve quality Accelerate the product listing time and reduce development risks.
ANANM Semiconductors provide diodes, MOSFETs, IGBTs, power regulators, etc. Standard discrete components for medical applications, and provide customizable choices to cooperate with medical market (Table 1).
Ansian Semiconductors provide custom ASSPs according to the unique needs of medical applications, such as multi-channel transient surge suppressors can be customized according to unique physical requirements and electrical parameters, with extremely fast turning, surge current greater than 12 A, etc. Characteristics; and provide less pins, leakage current, and 8 MB of storage capacity to achieve ultra-low power consumption SRAM, EEPROM, and SRAM-FLASH.
To achieve lower cost, higher energy efficiency, Ansian Semiconductors also provide serial SRAM memory replacing EEPROM, FRAM, and standard SRAM. Parallel SRAM usually requires a 3-way control input, 15 address input and 8 data I / O total 26 lines, only for low power applications. The serial SRAM only needs to have a total of 4 lines, and the occupancy area is smaller, the pin is less, the power consumption is lower, and the computer can save the average of 10 years, the system is lower, which is very suitable for cardiac monitoring equipment, etc. Small size application.
In particular, in order to match the FDA III of specific requirements, the Anshen Mei Semiconductor provides medical grade standard components for an application of an aromal or life, and provides MIL-STD-750 test methods that meet MIL-PRF-1950 standards, support The JAN / JANHC quality level, the high reliability process of military standard protocol models such as production line manufacturing approved by the National Defense Back Duty Bureau (DLA).
Hearing aid
According to the wearing position, hearing aid is mainly divided into behind-the-ear, bte) and in-the-eAR, ITE. The former includes traditional BTE, micro BTE and Ekiny built-in receiver-in-canal (RIC), which include full, 3/4, half ear type ITE, ear canal built-in (ITC), deep audience (Completely- In-Canal, CIC) and INVIBLE-IN-CANAL, IICs.
Miniature and "invisible" are a major trend of hearing aids: smaller RIC and new IIC types are more popular, which requires semiconductor manufacturers to transfer to 65 nm or smaller nodes and miniaturized packaging technology; hearing aids The two trends is to add wireless communication and connection function: technology currently uses the technology of near-field magnetic induction (NFMI) with Bluetooth relay devices, requires interoperability and advanced packaging technology; third, hearing aids will develop To more "intelligent" and fully automated: If the volume control and signal processing are automatically adapted, the user is more comfortable, which requires its increase in processing power and algorithm complexity. The development trend of hearing aids generates power consumption, size, mixed signal processing, etc. Design challenges. If the current consumption is less than 1 mA, the multi-chip and chip area is less than 10 mm2, numbers and simulation functions, and the like when the 1 V operating voltage is required.
Ansian Semiconductor provides full range of DSP systems, including pre-configured RhythmTM series, pre-configuring rhythm? And ayre? Series, and ezairo? Series. In addition to a comprehensive hearing aid system such as DSP, ADC, DAC, NVM, these series, providing different configurations for different target designers to meet their different needs: Ezairo series programmable IDE, suitable for differentiated algorithms The pre-configured series provides pre-load algorithm for old customers and people with medium listening knowledge, supporting infrasigner, ark and reference design; and pre-admiring series provides pre-load algorithms, supporting manuals, and is about to launch Reference design helps to solve its design challenge for new hearing aid manufacturers and simulated hearing aid manufacturers.
In terms of resolving space-limited requirements for hearing aid vendors, Messemei semiconductors have more than 40 years of experience, mainly using advanced 2.5d and 3D ultra-small system level packages (SIP), which will different silicon chips and discrete at the same package. The components are connected together, which greatly saves space through reduced signals and enhances electrical properties. SIP is a custom package development and manufacturing service, designed to focus on size, performance and system integration.
Ansian Semiconductors will launch a new solution with SIP integration 2.4 GHz wireless modules, with only 7.39 × 3.94 × 1.4 mm, and its key features include: integrated fully programmable multi-core audio processors, adapters can be connected via linear interfaces Any audio source (TV, HIFI) provides a three-dimensional stream of a remote microphone adapter, using a standard configuration file of your mobile phone such as "Find Me", "Phone Alert Profile", etc., etc. can be controlled by mobile phone control, etc.
Custom medical ASIC
Medical equipment designers generally face the following design challenges:
* Low energy consumption: battery-powered medical equipment is high, and standard discrete components may consume too much current, unable to provide satisfactory product use time; * Small size: usually require small to provide dispersion and comfort Degree, and the standard discrete component will make the shape of the shape of the shape too large; * High voltage: the sensor may require high pressure bias, simultaneously generate very low level signals, when using discrete components to process high pressure and low pressure, sensor interface circuit is usually too Complex; * Low noise: The signal captured by the special body sensor is very weak, leakage current, or other unwanted current will turn over the signal generated by the sensor; * Long product lifecycle: more than 10 years, and many standard components in medical equipment Before the production is over; * Low BOM cost: The number of system components designed with discrete components can not be reduced.
The customized ASIC solution provides energy consumption advantage, providing size advantages in high integration, integrated high-voltage and low voltage circuits, providing high signal channel isolation and low noise, with long product life cycles, providing integrated programs to reduce system costs, Help designers solve their unique design challenges.
Ans Mei Semiconductive has a wide range of high performance, low-energy ASIC IP lineups, and provides system-level programs, such as low-power sound trigger functions for hands-free operation. In China, Anni Mei Semiconductor has accumulated successful medical ASIC. As since 2007, Messen Semiconductor has monitored ASICs for Merry, used for multi-channel electrocardiogram, heart rate and respiratory monitor, blood oxygen saturation. Monitoring equipment, achieving lower energy consumption than discrete standard product plans and reduces overall BOM costs. Mirai will also release more products that use this ASIC.
Struix is the semi-custom combination scheme launched by Messen Semiconductors, composed of customized and standard ASSP components, ie a simulated sensor interface or a drive customized according to customer's own specifications, and an ARM? Cortex? -M3 core (ULPMC10) ultra low power consumption only digital microcontroller chip. "STRUIX" is a latin form of "Stacked" T stacked together), which stacked customized chips and standard chips in a package to provide miniature, high-energy semiconductor solutions, providing more customization than standard components, The design time is shortened by the complete system-level chip (SOC) scheme to reduce development risks and related costs, suitable for micro-medical equipment such as blood glucose monitoring, transdermal administration, portable and fixed-point care (POC) patient monitoring. Figure 5 is an example of Struix-based product example, which makes it possible to use silicon integration and modularity, high integration, easy design, and further enhance design flexibility, because ULPMC10 microcontrollers can use the future microcontrol of Ansian Semiconductor Easy to upgrade, no need to replace the analog front end.
Conclusion
Promote the comprehensive factors such as market motivation, demographic trends, government policies, medical industry structures and growth, and the Chinese medical equipment industry has developed prospects. Medical equipment manufacturers must go to innovation and development in the front of the market. The medical semiconductor is moving toward higher integration, miniaturization, and higher energy efficiency in the trend of wearable medical gradually. As a supplier of high energy innovation, Anshen American semiconductor provides complete medical semiconductor products and services, rich expertise and experience, and promises product and programs to meet the high quality and high reliability of the medical market strict requirements. Medical technology developers solve their unique design challenges.
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Source: Wiku Electronic Market Network
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