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Article: FPGAs make retinal disease treatment faster and safer: medical and electronics technologies join forces to treat retinal disease with 100% reliability.(MEDICAL ELECTRONICS TEST)
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- EE-Evaluation Engineering
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Reliability is an important aspect for every product on the market, but no industry values it more than the manufacturers of medical devices. When reliability directly affects the health and safety of human beings, manufacturers must spend extra time and resources evaluating every possible concern and adding redundancies for a 100% success rate.
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OptiMedica is a company that fully embraced reliability when designing the PAttern SCAnning Laser (PASCAL) Photocoagulator. By using double-redundant safety circuitry, dedicated FPGA hardware for laser control, and a rigorous calibration procedure, OptiMedica ensures that it can save a ...