Infrastructures for mixed signals in biology and medicine

Author

Courtois, Bernard ; Charlot, Benoît ; Di Pendina, G. ; Rufer, Libor

Author_Institution

CMP, Grenoble

fYear

2008

fDate

18-20 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Many medical and biological applications require custom integrated hardware. Infrastructures for the design of CMOS and MEMS hardware allow the education and commercialization at a low cost and in a short time. This paper is reviewing the most recent developments at CMP for the manufacturing of ICs and MEMS. These custom hardware vehicles allow to target many medical and biological applications. Examples are provided through the paper. Such infrastructures may help the Medical and Biological community the same way they helped the Microelectronics community at the time of the VLSI revolution. These applications offer a number of challenges to the MS3T community.

Keywords

biology computing; chemical mechanical polishing; integrated circuits; medical signal processing; micromechanical devices; CMOS hardware; CMP; IC; MEMS hardware; MS3T community; VLSI revolution; biology; custom integrated hardware; medicine; mixed signal infrastructures; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS process; Costs; Educational institutions; Fabrication; Hardware; Integrated circuit manufacture; Microelectronics; Micromachining; Micromechanical devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed-Signals, Sensors, and Systems Test Workshop, 2008. IMS3TW 2008. IEEE 14th International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2395-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2396-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMS3TW.2008.4581622

Filename

4581622