Application Development Kit Simplifies Design of Wirelessly Enabled Implants

November 22, 2010

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With patient care moving from the hospital to the home in many cases, telemetry systems and wireless technology are increasingly in demand. In an effort to cater to this demand while facilitating integration, Zarlink Semiconductor (Ottawa, ON, Canada) has introduced an application kit for the design, evaluation, prototyping, and development of wireless radiofrequency telemetry systems for medical implant applications.

"Customers are designing our wireless radio technology into approved applications, including pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, and a widening range of new devices such as cardiac monitors and neuromodulation systems," says Steve Swift, senior vice president and general manager of Zarlink's medical products group. "Our new application development kit offers customers a complete hardware and software solution to speed the development of ultra-low-power, highly reliable, and standards-compliant medical communication systems built on Zarlink's proven medical wireless expertise."

The ZLE70102 application development kit (ADK) provides an end-to-end MICS medical communication system when used along with the company's ZL70102 radio platform. Consisting of an application unit representing the base station and a second representing the implant application, the ADK allows engineers to develop custom board designs.

Suited for use in implants, the radio chip is designed to transmit patient health and device performance data from the device to a base station and then on to a physician's office for better patient care. The ADK, according to Zarlink, can help speed wireless system integration into such implants as pacemakers, ICDs, neurostimulators, drug pumps, cardiac implantable loop recorders, physiologic monitors, and sensors.

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