COMMED - Wireless Communication System for Medical Applications

• Research unit: INNOSUISSE
• Project number: 8427.2;6 NMPP-NM

Short description (English)

COMMED - Wireless Communication System for Medical Applications

Short description (French)

COMMED - Wireless Communication System for Medical Applications

Abstract (English)

There is an increasing demand in the medical market for ultra low power, low cost, small size, radio frequency communication devices that can support low to medium data rates, multiple user capabilities, and operation with a very long battery life and in severe multipath environment. Examples can be found in body area networking and applications such as hearing aids for the transmission of vital parameters or compressed audio. To answer this increasing demand, the objective of this CTI project is to develop a novel ultra low power radio CMOS chip using a new and very promising wireless technology that can be interfaced with AMIS¿s existing (and future) digital signal processing (DSP) and medical technologies (e.g., DSP system-on-a-chip (SoC) or implantable SoC).

Abstract (French)

There is an increasing demand in the medical market for ultra low power, low cost, small size, radio frequency communication devices that can support low to medium data rates, multiple user capabilities, and operation with a very long battery life and in severe multipath environment. Examples can be found in body area networking and applications such as hearing aids for the transmission of vital parameters or compressed audio. To answer this increasing demand, the objective of this CTI project is to develop a novel ultra low power radio CMOS chip using a new and very promising wireless technology that can be interfaced with AMIS¿s existing (and future) digital signal processing (DSP) and medical technologies (e.g., DSP system-on-a-chip (SoC) or implantable SoC).