Medical, Healthcare & Wellness

October 2010

Peter Blyth, Medical Industry Director, XP Power

Safety is paramount wherever power supplies are used, but nowhere more so than in medical applications where even small parasitic leakage currents may compromise safety. First published in 1977,

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10/01/2010

Smart Battery Management in Medical Devices

Shadi Hawawini, Senior Applications Engineer; and George Paparrizos, Product Marketing Director, Summit Microelectronics

Technology advancements over the past few years have generated many new developments that have specifically benefitted the portable medical device market. The focus of such efforts has centered

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10/01/2010

Lowest Cost Medical and Beyond

Rick Murphy, as reported by Cliff Keys, Editor-in-Chief, Power Systems Design

Analog Devices products and technologies have made a significant contribution in healthcare designs - helping shape the future of diagnostics and monitoring equipment, as well as health and wellness

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10/01/2010

Portable Ultrasound System Design

Suresh Ram, as reported by Cliff Keys, Editor-in-Chief, Power Systems Design

I had the great pleasure to talk with Suresh Ram, Director, Medical Key Market Segment at National Semiconductor Corporation. Suresh is responsible for driving the strategy and development of innovative

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10/01/2010

Medical Equipment Design

By John Di Cristina, Director of Strategic Marketing, Maxim Integrated Products Inc., Chelmsford, MA, USA

A stethoscope, whether acoustic or digital, is used mainly to listen to heart and lung sounds in the body as an aid to diagnosis. Listening, or auscultation, has been done with acoustic stethoscopes

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10/01/2010