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Integrating A GUI Into An Existing Medical Device

Posted by Hemos on from the build-it-from-the-bottom-up dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "As I'm not quite familiar with medical devices, I was fascinated by this long article from Medical Electronics Manufacturing. It tells us that "new technology makes graphical user interfaces (GUIs) a fast and cost-effective way to add features and improve on existing designs" of these medical devices. And it really looks simple to use. You just need a standard PC and an HTML authoring tool to develop your GUI. It is then compiled in micro-HTML and embedded in silicon, leading to a graphical OS chip which doesn't need to be powerful or have tons of memory. "The GUI shipped with the Amulet Technologies starter kit, for example, contains almost half a megabit of information in HTML. When all of the gifs, widgets, and other files are imported and compiled into micro-HTML, the file size is reduced to a mere 66 Kb of memory." This overview contains more details and a photograph of such a GUI at work."

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  1. Micro HTML eh? by nizcolas · · Score: 4, Funny

    How long before we get the first micro pop up ad?

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  2. Re:Code blue (screeen of death) by Scott+Hale · · Score: 5, Funny
    the file size is reduced to a mere 66 Kb of memory

    I doubt that's Windows

  3. "Authoring Tool" by sbszine · · Score: 4, Funny

    You just need a standard PC and an HTML authoring tool to develop your GUI.

    I hope they mean a text editor. I would hate to entrust my life to a piece of machinery with a GUI 'authored' in FrontPage : )

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