With the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, ventilators have become the most critical medical equipment for treating COVID-19 patients, earning them the title of "life-saving machines." The barriers to ventilator production and registration are high; transitioning to ventilator production requires overcoming multiple challenges, including raw material supply, component assembly, and registration and certification. Consequently, global ventilator production cannot be significantly increased in the short term. In the global ventilator market, the invasive ventilator segment is dominated by foreign brands. In China's invasive ventilator market, imported brands prevail, accounting for over 80% of the market share.

医用呼吸机的AMR解决方案

As an effective means of artificially replacing spontaneous ventilation, ventilators are widely used in cases of respiratory failure caused by various reasons, anesthetic respiratory management during major surgeries, respiratory support therapy, and emergency resuscitation. They hold a very important position in modern medicine. Ventilators are primarily used in intensive care medicine, home care, emergency medicine, and anesthesiology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ventilators saved tens of millions of patients' lives.

Ventilator Basic Structure

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Airway positive pressure ventilators increase gas pressure, connecting to the patient's airway intubation via tubing. The gas flows directly to the alveoli via the airway and bronchi, which is the inspiratory phase. During exhalation, the ventilator tubing is open to the atmosphere, and the pressure in the alveoli is greater than atmospheric pressure, causing the gas within the alveoli to be expelled spontaneously until it equals atmospheric pressure.

ARM Product Recommended Solution:

We offer various embedded solutions for medical ventilators, with the main control platform adopting NXP's industrial-grade platform processor IMX6DL.

The core module uses a dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A9 @ 800 MHz. It integrates DDR and eMMC memory, as well as power management. It provides high-performance processing and high functional integration to meet the demands of high-end, advanced industrial and medical applications requiring graphically rich and responsive user interfaces, especially suitable for multimedia applications.

Large-scale applications in the automotive and power markets have proven that this processor offers stability and security comparable to foreign processors. It possesses powerful video and image processing capabilities. The subordinate controller uses a high-performance crossover MCU processor with real-time low latency, responding in as little as 20ns, enabling fast and sensitive response and control.

As an effective means of artificially replacing spontaneous ventilation, ventilators are widely used in scenarios such as respiratory failure caused by various reasons, anesthetic respiratory management, and respiratory support therapy. They are very important in modern medicine.

Solution Topology Diagram

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Reasons for Recommendation:

① Based on the i.MX 6DualLite processor, featuring a dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A9 @ 800 MHz. It integrates DDR and eMMC memory, as well as power management. It provides high-performance processing and high functional integration to meet the demands of high-end, advanced industrial and medical applications requiring graphically rich and responsive user interfaces, especially suitable for multimedia applications.

② 1080P video encoding and decoding, supporting RGB888, dual 8-lane LVDS, HDMI, and MIPI display interfaces, easily enabling image and video processing.

③ Industrial-grade product quality, a lifecycle of over 10 years, and an open-source operating system, making product development simpler, more efficient, and more reliable.