Leveraging Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for Medical Devices

System engineering and product management leaders at medical device companies can select appropriate circuits in their products for integration using an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) to deliver an outsized return on investment and take advantage of hardware-software co-development for Digital Health use cases.

Benefits of ASIC integration include savings on bill of materials cost, enabling hard to achieve form factors, drastically improving performance over discrete off-the-shelf components, while protecting intellectual property through a proprietary electronic solution. Depending on volume and the type of circuits selected, ASIC integration could result in 2-3 orders of magnitude reduction in bill of materials cost and 2-3X improvement in performance compared to an equivalent off-the-shelf discrete component based electronic circuit.

An ASIC development flow can be smartly geared to mitigate risk and need for any software changes thereby enabling a 510(k) application for speedy market entry without needing an expensive and time-consuming FDA recertification of the ASIC based version of the medical device. To top it all, a US based manufacturing supply chain for the ASIC can reduce long terms risks to your medical device business from component supply chain issues. For insights on how to use ASIC integration in your medical device, thereby transforming your business, and enabling new revenue streams, please request your copy of our latest insights through the form below.