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November 2004 —
The Challenge of Designing In-body Communications Embedded Systems Programming
The concept of in-body communications networks once was the domain of science fiction writers. Today, thanks to advanced ultra low-power RF (radio frequency) capabilities, a pacemaker can make a wireless telephone call to the doctor's office to report health data. In this Embedded Systems cover story, Zarlink ultra low-power experts Ake Sivard, Peter Bradley, Peter Chadwick, and Henry Higgins look at the challenges of sending data out of a human body.
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