Advancements in a wide range of technologies — including AI, robotics, sensors, and the Internet of Things (IoT) — are driving accelerated growth in the vibrant global market for medical and healthcare electronics. This offers significant opportunities to those who can successfully leverage these technologies to meet the evolving demands of this sector.
Successful innovators know that market leadership is built on a relentless focus on core competence, complemented by strong partnerships. As an acknowledged and trusted source for the world’s leading suppliers of medical technologies, Avnet Silica is recognised as the partner of choice by the medical industry’s leading brands.
Significant opportunities in the medical electronics market
Medical practitioners and patients alike are seeing unprecedented benefits from technology, as equipment manufacturers rise to meet the challenges of an aging population and a rise in chronic disease, set against a global shortage of trained medical personnel.
From MRI scanners and nuclear imaging equipment in the hospital, to wearable monitors and smart pill dispensers in the home, state-of-the-art medical equipment is fundamentally improving both the diagnosis and treatment of a vast spectrum of medical conditions. By enabling an increasingly data-driven approach, today’s medical instrumentation is reshaping the medical industry, improving efficiency and transforming practitioner and patient experiences.
As a supplier there’s never been a better time to participate in this high-growth industry, as governments and the private sector invest heavily in healthcare infrastructure and regulators streamline approval processes. Having reached a global value in excess of US$300 billion, this dynamic market offers opportunity across the value chain, from components such as MCUs and sensors to high-value equipment, such as the MRI scanner.
Your needs as an OEM
With today’s medical applications leveraging multiple emerging technologies such as digitalisation, AI, IoT, and data analytics, developers must have access to an increasingly wide range of knowledge and skill sets. Typical patient monitoring devices, for example, integrate custom-designed MCUs with advanced sensor and display technologies, sophisticated power-management modules, and comprehensive communications interfaces.
Software development is a key activity within the development cycle, covering the application itself as well as the various stacks required to interact with sensors displays, comms interfaces, and more. Additionally, the combination of confidential patient data and connectivity increases the security risk and equipment must comply with relevant market safety and security standards.
In such a dynamic environment, it’s becoming more and more difficult — and less necessary — to do everything in-house. Which MCU best fits the needs of the application? How will this sensor perform in the intended operating environment? Which embedded operating system should you use (and how) to access existing software libraries and development tools? Most importantly, how do you accelerate compliance with the relevant standards, such as security and radio spectrum, without hiring scarce and expensive relevant resource?
The successful innovator navigates this complex landscape by focusing on core competence and leveraging a strong ecosystem to accelerate time to market.
Featured products
Webinar
The Future of Healthcare
Discover how technology is transforming healthcare in this three-day webinar featuring top semiconductor companies. Sessions will cover advancements in early disease detection, wearable health monitoring, and cutting-edge medical devices.
STMicroelectronics
ST1VAFE6AX
The ST1VAFE6AX is a biosensor embedding a vAFE channel to detect biopotential signals and a 6-axis IMU featuring a high-performance 3-axis digital accelerometer and 3-axis digital gyroscope for motion tracking.
NXP
MCX A Series MCUs
The MCX A series devices cover the widest range of applications and are a foundation for intelligent edge applications. They offer an optimized and cost-effective balance of performance and autonomous peripherals.
STMicroelectronics
ST1VAFE3BX
The ST1VAFE3BX is a biosensor embedding a vAFE channel to detect biopotential signals and a high-performance 3-axis digital accelerometer for motion tracking.
Renesas
RA8E1 MCU
The RA8E1 MCU Group features entry-line 32-bit microcontrollers (MCU) based on the Arm® Cortex®-M85 (CM85) core with Helium and TrustZone®, delivering breakthrough performance of 6.39 CoreMarks/MHz.
Nordic Semiconductor
Nordic Thingy:91 X
The Nordic Thingy:91 X is a battery-operated prototyping platform for cellular IoT based on the nRF9151 System-in-Package (SiP) supporting LTE-M, NB-IoT, GNSS and NR+, and certified for global operation.
Nordic Semiconductor
nRF7000 IC
The nRF7000 IC, a powerful Wi-Fi companion chip designed explicitly for SSID-based Wi-Fi locationing.
Powering Healthcare
Relentless global demand for medical and healthcare equipment offers unprecedented opportunity for innovators who can get to market rapidly with new products. Characterised by an uncompromising requirement for safety, medical equipment requires power supply solutions that reliably deliver clean and stable power, reducing the risk of patient harm or equipment failure.
Developers of all categories of medical equipment must have access to specialist power electronics expertise to make the right choices when designing the power supply for the end application. With our broad power offering and our team of dedicated experts, Avnet Silica are here to help you weigh your power solution options and decide which work best for you.
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Accelerate innovation by partnering with Avnet Silica
For well over a decade, Avnet Silica has been recognised by the medical industry’s leading brands as a key partner when it comes to making breakthrough applications come to life. We serve the distinct needs of customers in four major healthcare segments:
- Diagnostic and therapeutic equipment
- Medical imaging systems
- Medical instrumentation
- Fitness and healthcare wearables
When you partner with Avnet Silica you benefit from:
1) Dedicated expertise
We understand our customers’ unique expertise and knowledge of the healthcare industry, and our dedicated team of technical and operations professionals enables you to concentrate your valuable resources on your areas of core competence.
This dedicated team is drawn from a medical OEM background and have built strong working relationships within our extensive portfolio of world-leading suppliers to the medical industry. These relationships ensure that our experts are always up to date on the latest sensing, processing, and embedded computing technologies, as well as emerging regulatory requirements and overall market trends. When you work with our team, you gain direct access to these relationships, offering insights which will keep you ahead of the curve.
2) Accelerated innovation
With time to market being a crucial factor, Avnet Silica have designed a highly integrated set of development tools to accelerate your development process. These include a wide range of sensors to provide better access to underlying data, processors optimised for specific functions — like running algorithms for image processing — and critical-support areas, including connectivity, input/output (I/O), and power management.
Like you, we think in overall system terms and supply a range of modules, software and services which can be combined with your own design blocks to ease the integration challenge.
3) Comprehensive product portfolio
As an authorised source for the leading suppliers of the technologies revolutionising the medical industry, Avnet Silica has the inventory in place to support you, particularly when time to market is critical.
By intentionally investing in stocking the newest releases, such as highly integrated sensors, we ensure you can rapidly bring cutting-edge solutions such as wearables to market. We also understand that some medical applications take years to reach the market, so we stock products on seven to ten-year extended life programs to remove concerns about design changes at the end of a long test and approval process. We also have tailored supply-chain programs to ensure products are available for you well after end-of-life announcements to support your equipment in the field or spare parts programs.
4) Market-winning partnership
Everything we do is focused on accelerating your product development process and reducing time to revenue. When we work with you, we’ll identify the best suppliers based on your application, location, and the broader support levels required. Together we’ll build the best combination of development team, products and supplier to guarantee the market success of your solution.
Our close relationships with our extensive range of suppliers ensure we have the insights to help your engineers make the right decisions when choosing the best components for your solution. These same relationships offer a window into the full product roadmaps and lifecycles of our partners, enabling you to secure second and third sources for your chosen devices. Our full-system approach ensures we can support you across the entire product lifecycle, from choosing the best device to optimisation of overall solution design.
ISO certified value-add and integration centers at your service
Outsourcing with the right partner is a strategic way for you to keep your costs down without sacrificing quality or control. Freeing up cash from operations means more dollars for R&D, delivering new services or impacting the bottom line. Avnet holds the ISO 13485:2003 certification at all of our integration centers around the world. Our processes ensure consistent quality to your exact specifications, including when you make changes to your BOM or application.
Avnet Silica has been consistently recognized as supplier of the year by the leading brands in the medical industry for well over a decade. We know what it takes to serve the medical industry and invite you to put us to work for you.
Avnet Silica has been consistently recognised as supplier of the year by the leading brands in the medical industry for well over a decade. We know what it takes to serve the medical industry and invite you to put us to work for you.
Technologies
Power
We’ll show you the right power solution whether you’re designing power components onto your board or using an AC/DC supply in your system.
Technology
Avnet Displays
Avnet Displays are the display technology experts of the global Avnet family, which has teams, distribution centers and support facilities strategically located to serve customers all over the world.
Solutions
Internet of Things
Avnet Silica has the perfect supplier offering to enable you to put your product development into the Internet of Things.
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