Course Description

Design of Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices: Technical and Regulatory aspects

Course given by Fernando Silveira, Electrical Engineering Department, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Louvain-la-Neuve, August 29th, Shannon Room (A105, Maxwell building)

This short course links, on one hand, the system and industrial views of the design of medical devices, and on the other hand, examples of recent circuit design-level research results. At the system level, the needs and opportunities for the circuit designer are presented, as well as an overview of the necessary sytematic design procedure (required by regulatory agencies in an industrial device) in order to guarantee the safety of the final devices.

At the circuit level, after presenting a brief overview of biopotential signal acquisition, some of the presented system-level eamples are ilustrated with recent research results on circuit design solutions for neural amplifiers (Oreggioni et al, IEEE TBIOCAS 2018) and a wearable device design (Fierro et al, Health and Technology 2016 and IEEE EMBC2017).

Short biography

Fernando Silveira received the electrical engineering degree from Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1990, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D.degrees in microelectronics from Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Universidad de la Republica. His research interests include the design of ultra-low-power analog and RF integrated circuits and systems, in particular with biomedical application. In this field, he has co-authored one book and many technical papers.  He has had multiple industrial activities including leading the design of an application specified integrated circuit for implantable pacemakers and designing analog cirtcuit modules for implantable devices for various companies worldwide, field in which he continues to do consulting.  He was member of the Technical Advisory Board of Gtronics, Inc, USA from 2006 to 2010, received the "Ingeniero Destacado" (Distinguished Engineer) award by the Uruguayan Association of Engineers in 2007 and was a member for 2011-2012 of the Distinguished Lecturers Program of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Venue

August 29th, 9 am, Shannon Room, A105, Maxwell building, Place du levant 3, Louvain-la-Neuve

Registration

Free but mandatory on https://sites.uclouvain.be/doctoralschool-musics/CoursesList?view=item&id=427301512

Tentative Schedule

 (It is likely that some of the parts could be covered in less time and the total time is reduced a bit).

9:00 to 10:30:

I. Introduction:

System: Active Implantable Medical Devices (AIMDs) Today

AIMD Module Example

System: Wearable Device Example

Break

11:00 to 12:30

II.  AIMD Module Design and Test: Neural Recording Amplifier

Lunch

14:00 to 15:30

III. Regulatory Aspects

Break

16:00 to 17:00

IV. Wearable Device Design Example

V. Conclusions