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Miniaturization in the Medical Interconnect Market:“The Fantastic Voyage”
Anthony Kalaijakis, Hypertronics Corporation www.hypertronics.com
The topic of miniaturization in the Medical market has been around for many years. In the movie The FantasticVoyage, shrinking the medical team and injecting them into the human body to navigate to a clot saves the world. The team boards the submarine Proteus and heroically faces navigation through the human body to the clot where they zap it with a laser.
As fantastic as it seemed in 1969, it foreshadowed the future developments in the Medical market. Miniaturization in the medical device and equipment market is following the paradigm established by Gordon Moore of Intel in 1965. Known as Moore’s law it theorizes that transistors on integrated circuits double about every two years. The doubling of the density allows for more performance out of less physical space as demonstrated by the downscaling of
computing technology and electronics as a whole.
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Mandated for use on all future space flight per specification S-311-P-822
James Demers, Hypertronics Corporation www.hypertronics.com
Hypertronics space grade Compact PCI (cPCI) connectors were selected by Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) of Pasadena, CA for use on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) scheduled to launch in 2009. Incorporating the unique Hypertac® “Basket of Wires” contact technology, Hypertronics cPCI will be instrumental in all phases of the mission from lift-off, navigation, entry, descent, landing, roaming, and geological survey. Behind all of these complex embedded systems are high powered single board computers (SBC) connected together through common back planes which handle all control functions and analysis for the MSL rover. Essential to mission success, all systems and components must exceed the long and difficult journey to Mars as well as the extreme surface operation of 1 Martian year, equal to 2 Earth years.
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