ADI will seize the opportunities in the wearable medical market with an ultra-low power analog front end (AFE) solution. With the rise of home care, the business opportunities in the wearable medical market have risen steadily. Therefore, since 2012, Adano has actively strengthened the ultra-low power analog front-end component product portfolio, hoping to enter the wearable medical electronics market.
Ye Suyi, a senior application engineer at Adano Semiconductor in Taiwan, said that driven by the trend of home care, the demand for wearable medical electronics will show explosive growth in 2013, and revenue performance is expected. Adano has launched an integrated analog front end. The device is in a 4 mm (4 mm) and 4 mm (4 mm) package size and includes four analog ICs, four amplifiers, and logic judgment ICs. In the future, Adano will continue to focus on the development of ultra-low power integrated analog front-ends to stabilize its position in the medical electronics market.
Figure 3 Ye Suyi, Senior Application Engineer, Adano Semiconductor, Taiwan
Ye Suyi further pointed out that the key to the design of wearable medical electronic components is low power consumption, wearable comfort and connection technology that supports database management. Therefore, Adano first launched an integrated analog front end with low power consumption and ultra-small size by using ECG measurement as the main application market last year. This year, it will launch more low-power wearable medical treatments in conjunction with other medical electronic module manufacturers. Electronic products measure the user's heartbeat in a variety of wearable ways, expanding the scope of wearable medical electronic applications.
The most important difference between Adrian's integrated analog front-end for the wearable medical electronics market and the previous generation is the removal of the internal analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which is also the key to achieving low power consumption. Ye Suyi explained that Adno observed that the microprocessor (MCU) or central processing unit (CPU) paired with the analog front end often has built-in ADC, so this can reduce the power consumption caused by unnecessary functions, allowing The new-generation integrated analog front end has a working current of only 180 microamperes (µA), which reduces power consumption by more than 80% compared to traditional discrete analog front-end solutions.
It is understood that the analog front-end has been adopted by the Medical Materials Institute of the Industrial Technology Research Institute and Zhongwei Lai Kang Technology in mainland China. They have launched the OK stretch ECG recorder and remote ECG monitoring mobile phone. In the future, Adano will further expand the consumer market and focus on the functions of "portable health assistant", focusing on functions such as heartbeat and emotion prediction. At the end of this year, it will launch new modules in cooperation with module manufacturers. Ye Suyi estimates that driven by the sales growth of analog front-ends and new modules, Adano ’s revenue from wearable medical electronics next year is expected to increase significantly from this year.
The application of heartbeat and emotion monitoring is not only applicable to the human body, but animal monitoring has slowly begun to become another major application field. Ye Suyi pointed out that many foreign manufacturers have applied wearable medical electronics to cattle to monitor the cattle ’s heartbeat and emotions, to master lactation time and other physiological indicators, in order to greatly reduce labor costs, and similar applications in the future will Innovative innovations are expected to attract revenue from wearable medical electronics.
According to the research report of IMS Research, the wearable electronics market has been heating up year by year. In 2011, its shipments have reached 14 million sets. It is expected that the relevant revenue in 2016 will be as high as 6 billion US dollars.
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