APPLICATION

GROWING POPULATION AND HEALTHCARE SPENDING

The global health market is affected by a number of demographic trends,including:

Growing eand ageing population: the Census Bureau forecasts that most of the "baby boomers" in the United States

(28 percent of the population of the United States) will reach the age of 65 between 2010 and 2020.

In both developed and developing countries, consumer expectations of improving health conditions are on the rise.

The reimbursement and coverage of medical expenses by insurance companies and employers is dedlining, and customers / patients have to bear more costs.

Tedhmology has pioneered new clmicaltreatment, which are overcoming more and more medical diseases and assiting in eary diagnosis and disease prevention

As shown in the figure below, global per capita health spending has risen alarmingly.Per capita health care spending in the United States

has increased fromi $i44 in 1f950 to rearly S4.400 in 1999.Per capita health care Spending in the Unted Stafes is expected to lncrease

to $7500 in 2008.Equipment suppliers realize that in order to succeed in the heati care fiarnet ,they must focus on andsucced in the United States.

GROWING GLOBAL HEALTHCARE SPENDING PER CAPITA

TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES MEDICAL EFFICIENCY

Over. the next 10 years, the health care market will focus on early diagnosis, ubiquitous access to digital patient information,

and "holistic solution" sales that help improve the efficiency of the health care industry.

New diagnostic techniques provide support for early diagnosis and prevention. For example, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is used to accurately

detect many types of cancer.

"paperless" hospitals are another new trend. Digital medical records support doctors to access patients' medical records everywhere. In fact, these

manufacturers have begun to sell complete solutions, including not only diagnostic devices, but also data storage servers and interface software.

Hospitals are also gradually abandoning a single point solution and buying interoperable equipment with a unified user interface from difrent vendor.

The hospital is developing an internal networkconnecting all diagnostic devices through which all user information, Such ascomputerized tomography

(CT), X-rays, PET scans, can be transmitted to the data storage server for immediate access,This has prompted medical equipmeint vendors to develop

interoperable devices with a unified user interface. In fact, these vendors have begun tosell complete solutions, incucing not only diagnostic deices,

but also data storage servers and interface software.

These trends improve the eficiency of the health care industry, which means that with better and faster diagnostic equipment, the medical system can

receivemarepatientstberebyachieving erydisease diagnosis and treatment. When paperless hospitals become areality,immediate patiet test

results and medical records will improve effiency

THE ADVANTAGES OF PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC

Most medical products are equipped with some type of semiconductor. In fact, the number of semiconductor components in these products is increasing.

compared with other semiconductor types,the adoption rate of programmable devices (PLD)continues to grow rapidly,in the field of medica

equipment development, PLD provides a powerful and feasible solution to replace ASIc and ASsP. n the design rocess.PLD can be reorogrammed on

demand, which elinminates the risk and loss of ASIc related pre-sexual engineering (NRE)costs,minimum oroer number and multinle chip iterations

Compared with ASsP,PLD provides design flexibility and circuit oard ineration oooortunities to pet out of the fierce compefition amono medical

device manufacturers. ln aditon,PLD can be upgraded on site as standards or requirements change. Reuse of the functionalityof the common hardware

platform enables designers to use a basic design to create differentiated systems that suppor a variety of feature sets, thereby reducing manufacturing,

costs. Compared with other medical equipmerit manufacturers,programmable logic supports thesucessiul implementaton ofsystem design in a flexible and

low-risk manner, and provides the best cost efficiency and value-added diferentiationfunction, whether it s the design of CT machine or patie monitoring equipment.

Finally, PLD has a long life cycle to protect customers from the risk of product phase -out, which is critical to the health care industry with a longer product cycle.

MEDICAL APPLICATION ORIENTED TO PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC

With programmable logic, engineers can economically and eficiently develop cuting-edge devices for a number of medical space applications, including;

Diagnostic imaging: X-ray, ultrasound, CT, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear/ PET

Electronic medical care: patient monitoring, life support and anaesthesia equipment

Cardiac rhythm management (CRM: capture system, implantable cardioverterdefibrillator (ICD) and automated external defibrillator (AED)

Life Science & Hospital Equipment: Laboratory Instruments, Radiation Equipment and Various Hospital Equipment

OUR ADVANTAGES.

We provide medical electronics manufacturers with astrong competitive advantage. Product solutions are currently used in avariety of medical end applications around the

world: they combine with a variety ofPLDs with optimized intellectual property(P)cores, hard/soft microprocessors,powerful design software and various development kits

to create easy-to-use A complete design platform to use. intelPLDsS such as the STRATiX product family and the CYCLONEIIFPGA product family, include a rich feature

set such as logic, miemory, dedicated digital signal processing (DSP) blocks, and 1/0 standard support, giving medical device designers what they need to win in the fierce market competition iAl tools needed.

Enables medical electronics manufacturers to successfully implement system designs in a flexible,cost-effective,and future-proof manner. Intel offers manufacturers the following opportunities:

Cost savings by avoiding ASIC's large NRE and minimum order quantity costs

Gain time-to-market advantages by eliminating long and high-risk ASIC development cycles.

Reduce costs and provide diferentiated services by integrating multiple ASSP functions into FPGAS.

Reprogramming during design and after equipment arives in the field

Reuse hardware platforms in various systems with one basic design

Works with multiple industry standards and protocols

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT

Ready-made lP approvalforour productoptimization can reduce engineering costs and shorten the time to market. Standard interfaces and lP cores

can be purchased through us and approved product lP partners. Design,suport and sell PGAIPfeaturesS.All PGAlPfeatures have been rigorously

tested and optimized to provide optimal performance and minimum cost for product PLD.

DEVELOPMENT KIT

The company and its partners provide a range of development suites to support the development and verification of system

on programmable chip (SOPC) design.

DESIGN

Accelerate innovation through equipment, tools, and IP.

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