New design techniques enable extremely reliable medical devices

2012-03-13 by Press release
For pacemakers and other implantable medical devices there are three key factors: extreme reliability, small size, and long longevity. In the EU project Desyre, researchers tackle these issues with a new approach: building a reliable system on unreliable components.

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Implantable deep brain stimulators will benefit from the new Desyre approach for extremely reliable chips.

Ioannis Sourdis, Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering at Chalmers, is the project leader of DeSyRe (on-Demand System Reliability).

 
“We focus on the design of future highly reliable Systems-on-Chips that consume far less power than other designs for high reliability systems,” he says. ”This approach allows by design devices that combine high reliability with small batteries and state-of-the-art longevity. It is perfect for safety-critical applications such as in implantable medical devices, for example pacemakers or deep brain stimulators that treat Parkinson’s disease”.

Read the entire press release here.

Last modified: March 14, 2012

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