Medical Solutions

With greater awareness of health and wellness and the growing cost of healthcare around the world, increasing emphasis is being placed on new and advanced technologies for prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment. This trend towards miniaturization and portability for home, clinical, and imaging medical devices presents a significant opportunity for medical equipment designers to make use of the advantages of FPGAs in developing efficient and flexible designs. Medical devices have high-reliability requirements, demand multi-functionality (integrated capabilities), require data logging and transmission capabilities—and yet must consume the lowest amount of power. Actel's flash-based, low-power FPGAs and mixed-signal FPGAs are the perfect fit for current trends in the medical market. For example, Actel's IGLOO low power FPGAs can be utilized to integrate all the functions specified in the following block diagram.

Key Benefits of Actel FPGAs

• System power optimization with Actel's low-power IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGAs and SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs
• Highly reliable and firm error immune FPGAs for system-critical applications.
• Unrivaled level of integration with SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGA and ARM® Cortex™-M3
• Minimum board size enabled by small-footprint packages (as small as 3x3 mm)
• Single-chip implementation offers lowest total system cost

	Dental X-Ray Camera
	Portable Heart Rate Monitor
	Patient Monitor

For device-related documents, visit the IGLOO, ProASIC3, and SmartFusion Documentation pages.

Application Briefs

	AC369: FPGA Solutions for Ultrasound App Brief		433 KB	7/2011	Click on the to rate this document
	AC368: FPGA Solutions for Defibrillators App Brief		559 KB	7/2011	Click on the to rate this document
	AC370: FPGA Solutions for 4D Imaging-based Therapy App Brief		483 KB	7/2011	Click on the to rate this document
	AC371: Personal Heart Monitor App Brief		486 KB	7/2011	Click on the to rate this document
	AC244: SmartFusion in Clinical Applications App Brief  Hemodialysis Machine		619 KB	2/2011	Click on the to rate this document
	AC242: Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs in Portable Medical Devices App Brief		522 KB	2/2011	Click on the to rate this document

White Papers

	Incredible Shrinking Medical Devices White Paper		316 KB	10/2008	Click on the to rate this document
	Single-Event Upsets (SEUs) and Medical Devices White Paper			12/2010	Click on the to rate this document
	Next-Generation Packaging for CRM Applications White Paper			2/2011	Click on the to rate this document
	Size, Reliability and Security: The Essential Ingredients for Medical Devices White Paper			8/2011	Click on the to rate this document