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How to Select Power Supplies for Medical Devices
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James Spencer
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February 8, 2024
This article aims to assist in selecting the correct power supply for medical applications. It explains the main factors to consider in identifying the optimal power supply option and provides a brief overview.
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Fibre optics - the hidden enabler of our daily lives
August 3, 2023
Fibre optic systems are well-known for their role within the telecommunications industry.
Key trends across the development of MedTech devices
June 9, 2023
The healthcare industry is facing a unique combination of challenges over the coming decades.
The IoT is ready for the era of virtual clinical trials
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Philip Ling
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March 10, 2023
Clinical trials take time and money, but they also need participants and lots of data. The IoT is now being used to capture that data from participants virtually and to conduct clinical trials in the digital domain.
Redefining healthcare & the interconnection technology repercussions
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Marco Enge
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February 16, 2022
As healthcare applications move out of the hospital and into patients' homes, electronic components must be adapted to a new set of criteria. Here Marco Enge explores how these criteria are affecting connector design.
What does miniaturisation mean for connector selection?
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Paul Jones
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February 9, 2022
As electronic systems become smaller, they also require more component parts in increasingly space-constrained environments to meet extra expectations on functionality. Here Paul Jones explores what they means for connector selection across markets.
Product compliance after Brexit: UKCA and what you need to know
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Andrew Hutton
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March 17, 2021
From the end of 2021, the CE mark will no longer be recognised in the UK. Andy Hutton gives a run down of what you need to know about the new UKCA mark.
How technology is enabling in-home healthcare and monitoring
Here, Alessandro Mastellari discusses the challenges of deploying remote healthcare, and the electronics systems that can support it.
Keeping the public healthy: preventative care for a well society
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Marc Eichhorn
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February 26, 2021
One of the first recorded examples of real science being used to improve public health comes from the case of Dr John Snow, who in the mid 1800s successfully identified contaminated water as the cause of cholera.
MOPP vs. MOOP: how to specifiy medical power supplies
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Philip Lechner
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December 8, 2020
Philip Lechner examines IEC/EN 60601-1 and how to differentiate between safety requirements when specifying medical power supplies.
From trace to interconnect: a quick guide to optimising high-speed signal-path design
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Martin Keenan
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November 23, 2020
In high-speed applications, effects such as common-mode noise, crosstalk, and losses due to signal-path impedances can challenge signal integrity. Here Martin Keenan explains how connector choice and signal path design can offset these issues.
The application of technology in the connected hospital
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Andrew Hutton
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August 26, 2020
Follow Avnet Abacus on LinkedIn Professional healthcare has always relied heavily on technology. Medicine went through something of a revolution around 2000 years ago, when observational science started to predominate the way patients were treated. The...
4 keys to selecting antennas for small IoT devices
November 19, 2019
Wireless connectivity is a critical enabler for many IoT applications. While a wireless module can simplify the RF subsystem design, a working system requires careful selection of an antenna as well.
How can combining different types of sensors result in more accurate data?
With more and more applications combining data from multiple sensors, Alessandro Mastellari looks at how sensor fusion is being applied with pressure sensors.
Pressure sensors: Why you should consider going digital
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Martin Keenan
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May 9, 2019
To give the electronic systems we design the ability to detect changes to what is around them we need analogue sensors. But the processing that sits behind those sensors is in almost every case going to be in the digital domain.
Pressure sensor miniaturisation: How smaller sensors are enabling better healthcare
In the second installment of our pressure sensor series Alessandro Mastellari explores how manufacturers are developing smaller and smaller devices.
What the growing pressure sensor market means for electronics
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Martin Keenan
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May 8, 2019
Pressure sensors became to automotive systems in the early 1990s, but as the rate of adoption of these components increases Martin Keenan investigates why.
Women in engineering – where are we now?
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Lisa Rees
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March 7, 2019
To mark International Women’s Day, we spoke to two female engineers at different points in their careers – one from the UK and one from Germany – to find out from them what their take is on being a woman in engineering and to learn more about t
When configurable power supplies are the best solution
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Hector Garcia
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November 20, 2018
Traditionally, system designers try to use ‘off-the-shelf’ standard components, expecting the lowest cost as a result. With power supplies, this is not necessarily the case when a holistic view is taken. A compelling case can be made for cost eff
3 reasons to visit Avnet Abacus at electronica 2018
November 12, 2018
As electronica 2018 prepares to open its doors, here are three reasons you should visit Avnet Abacus on stand C5 101 this week.
Wireless modules point the way for IoT connectivity
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Martin Keenan
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June 26, 2018
You've selected your wireless protocol, and you're ready to start designing. But should you take the modular route or build a discrete solution?
Customising and optimising antennas with materials science and manufacturing techniques
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Martin Keenan
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July 14, 2017
In an increasingly connected world, performance demands on antennas are greater than ever. These increased performance demands also have to be balanced with cost, and of course, the limits imposed by the laws of physics, which make antenna design a t
Sensor Fusion: The future of intelligent devices
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Martin Keenan
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March 14, 2017
Combining the data from multiple sensors can tell us a great deal more about the application environment than each sensor could on its own.
Deciphering datasheets for medical PSUs
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Philip Lechner
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April 29, 2016
Specifying medical power supplies can be particularly challenging because of the standards and jargon surrounding this application.
The internet of medical things (IoMT) bringing better healthcare for all
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Martin Keenan
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April 8, 2016
The Internet of Things (IoT) combines pervasive connectivity to control devices remotely with Big Data applications in The Cloud capable of organising vast quantities of information and extracting information hidden in the data to enable new services
