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A dedicated system-on-chip (SoC) integrates as much functionality as possible in a single chip and thereby allows miniaturisation of portable medical systems, while optimising performance and power consumption. Today's feature-rich semiconductor process technology platforms mean that SoC based solutions also optimise the cost and reliability of the overall system by reducing the number of components that are employed.

Facts and needs

An ever increasing number of devices are becoming portable. In the medical domain, devices for health monitoring, health telemetry and drug delivery systems are well known examples of these growing groups of ...