Microchip — Best in Class Medical Solutions to Meet the Demands of Today

Providing Best-in-Class Medical Solutions

With Future Electronics and Microchip

As medical cases worldwide have soared, so too has the demand to design smart, connected and secure IoT-enabled medical devices. Future Electronics and Microchip are experienced partners that can help meet design requirements smoothly and safely by helping medical manufacturers design and implement clinical, wearable and life-critical devices. In addition to the extensive selection of products, our engineer, software and support specialists can equip you with the tools you need to get the job done.

Let Future Electronics and Microchip lighten the load and open the door to manufacturing the medical equipment the world needs right now.

Vibrating Mesh Nebulizer Demonstration Board

Microchip’s single-chip vibrating mesh nebulizer demonstration board is ideal for cost-effective drug delivery devices and has many advantages, such as a small size, portability, quiet operation, short treatment times, battery operation, increased output efficiency and minimal residual volume. The integrated Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) on Microchip’s PIC16F1713 8-bit MCU significantly offload the MCU’s core in handling the control functions of a piezoelectric transducer mesh nebulizer.

Highlights:

• Single-chip implementation of a piezoelectric vibrating mesh nebulizer
• Cost-effective drug delivery method
• Boost and Piezo output stages use only discrete components
• Core Independent Peripherals (CIP) handle the following functions of this demo:
  • The CLC, PWMs, op amps, comparators and DACs drive the first boost stage
  • The NCO drives the piezo output stage
• CIPs significantly offload the MCU’s core, thereby freeing it up for other tasks
• Powered by three AAA batteries, USB or external power supply
• Test points and USB interface for easy development and debugging

Connected Wearable Activity Monitor Demo Board

Microchip’s Ultra Low-Power or ULP Connected, Wearable Activity Monitor Demonstration Board can be used as the starting point for the design of more advanced activity and biometric measurement devices in medical home monitoring, patient tracking and drug delivery compliance devices. These devices measure and analyze sleep quality, heart rate, body temperature, blood oxygen and more. Bluetooth connectivity allows the demo to communicate with tablets, smartphones or PCs for IoT capability.

Highlights:

• Features the high-performance, SAML21 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ microcontroller with Ultra Low-Power technology, the BTLC1000 4.1 Bluetooth Low Energy Module, the ECC508A CryptoAuthentication chip and other sensor chips.
• Allows for easy development of more advanced activity tracker functions
• Biometric measurement capability: Heart rate, blood oxygen and body temperature (using other Microchip reference designs)
• Smartphone/tablet and IoT capability thanks to BLE module
• Low overall BOM cost due to high level of integration possibilities

Connected Thermometer Demonstration Board

From traditional medical settings to many new and exciting places, Microchip’s Connected Thermometer Board showcases the ability to apply advanced MCUs and Bluetooth modules for premium performance and connectivity. The technology is now being integrated into many consumer products such as connected fitness and medical activity trackers. Featuring Microchip’s PIC16F1519 MCU and RN42 Bluetooth Module, this eXtreme Low Power (XLP) 8-bit microcontroller has an integrated touch sensing module for easy interactivity.

Highlights:

• Measures temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius
• Demo board buttons implemented using mTouch integrated capacitive touch technology
• OLED display is used to demonstrate stand-alone design capability
• Bluetooth module is used to demonstrate smartphone/tablet connected design capability
• Low overall BOM cost due to function integration
• Low power operation utilizing Microchip's XLP PIC16F1519 MCU
• Powered by two AAAA batteries

Pulse Oximeter Demonstration

Kickstart the design of your next Internet of Things (IoT) medical device design with a Microchip Pulse Oximeter Demonstration design. With the increased demand to measure heart rate and blood oxygen saturation, using one of Microchip’s many medical demo designs can quickly send the data to Google’s Cloud IoT core platform so you can keep track of the measurements safely. This is accomplished by using the Pulse Oximeter Demonstration design along with the AVR-IoT WG Development Board.

Products included in the demo::

• DSPIC33FJ128GP802 - Digital Signal Controller
• MCP4728 - Quad channel, 12-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter
• MCP1640 - Synchronous PFM/PWM Boost Regulator
• MCP6002 - Dual general-purpose op amp

Demonstration Highlights:

• Measures heart rate and percent blood oxygen saturation level
• dsPIC33FJ128GP802 uses a 513th-order, digital-FIR, bandpass filter designed with Microchip's Digital Filter Design Tool
• Eliminates the need for an expensive Analog Front End (AFE) part
• Low overall BOM cost due to processing and filter integration
• Integrated PWM module drives the LCD display
• MCP1640 boost regulator, MCP4728 DAC and the MCP6002 dual op amp used in the design for reliable and accurate power management and signal conditioning