BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES

BioElectric Solutions, Inc. develops electronic medical devices and instruments for companies and universities. We take on small projects between $50k – $225k in total subcontracted cost. Our rates are competitive. Our design is robust.

BioElectric Solutions will save your company development cost by focusing on prototyping in an application-centered manner. When possible, we rapidly integrate off-the-shelf technology, or even modify existing devices to work with you in testing your concept. We identify missing apparatus and develop instruments as needed. We work with you from concept to production.

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VALUE-ADDED APPLICATION MODULES

  • Electrogram acquisition and signal processing
  • Prosthetic, robotic and automation control systems
  • Dynamic system modeling and optimization
  • Medical Imaging
  • Control and monitoring of implantables, diagnostic, therapeutic and other real-time devices

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

Protect your intellectual property and simplify your design: Use a host-controller model and maintain all intellectual property on an ordinary PC host. The host can make complex calculations for nonlinear modeling and simulate signal-processing concepts.

DEVICE DOWNLOADS & OPTIMIZATION

Download tuned parameters onto a simple device. The device can then be optimized, or even upgraded to conduct different or new functions by receiving new parameters.

VERTICAL HOST INTEGRATION

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Vertically integrate your host, and maintain your medical device as flat as possible so that a state machine with the right firmware can send the clearest images, link your manipulator to a new set of activating signal sources or automatically update feedback-control loops.

COMPREHENSIVE CUSTOMER SUPPORT

Deliver cost-effective customer support by staying in touch with your devices. Networking your hosts in the field will facilitate detailed information flow so that you would learn how your device is performing. Upload diagnostics and help your customer troubleshoot field problems directly from your headquarters. Download new medical information into the host that can be used to better operate your devices.

EASY FDA APPROVAL

Decrease FDA filing costs with a modular design approach. Clear separation of essential and nonessential functions can simplify your FDA approval with the use of addenda. Maintain your complex design in the host, so that a minor field upgrade is nothing but another tuning session for the device.

HARDWARE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

BioElectric Solutions, Inc. designs custom circuits for signal processing and control systems of medical instruments. Every design will require some degree of signal routing, signal conditioning, switching, control or some processing that would be too inefficient to implement in software. All hardware is implemented at the board level, except for FPGA’s.

DC TO 80 MHZ

We support small signal instrumentation in low frequency, typically used for electrogram and physiologic data acquisition. We can design RF transceivers for imaging applications extending up to 80 MHz.

HYBRID AND DIGITAL CIRCUITS

We support hybrid circuits that require digital logic for interrupt control, switching or time-variant operations such as variable filter cutoffs. Adze Ybrant We also support basic Xylinx FPGA’s and Altera PLD’s for FIR design and control loop servicing.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR MEDICAL DEVICES

SIMPLE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES

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RAPID INTEGRATION

C++, MATLAB math libraries or MATLAB COM, LabVIEW (measurement studio) or LabVIEW COM can be rapidly integrated together to provide robust and efficient execution of long numerical computations. The example to the right shows a 6 d.o.f. robotic controller driver whose loop inputs are determined by processed electrograms acquired in real-time. Ten signals are supported at 10 ksa/ch-s. The loops can be simulated in the interface and afterwards, the transfer function coefficients are downloaded into the robotic controller Adze Ybrant.

 

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE

Robust state-machine architecture that supports real-time interrogation, real-time monitoring, mode operation, and servicing of real-time control loops.