By integrating more than 150 passive components on a 5-x-6-mm PICS die, an electronic pill can be manufactured in dimensions as small as 15 mm long and 6 mm in diameter.

For medical implantable devices, such as cardiac rhythm management devices and cochlear implants, to get better, they also have to get smaller, writes Franck Murray, of silicon passive components supplier IPDiA, in an article on MED sister site EMDT.

To advance miniaturization of their devices, designers can use silicon discrete passive compoonents.

Murray writes:

Integrating passive components with silicon in medical applications will enable new opportunities, just as it has done in the mobile devices arena. Technologies based on advanced structures such as the PICS platform are supplemented by improvements in device reliability, lifetime and performance. In this context, lifetime and reliability translate directly into fewer device replacements for the user."

To read more, visit EMDT.