Research and Development Services:

• sonoTECH offers:

  • Electronic- and Software development services.

  • Application software development for Windows™.

sonoTECH designs custom specific solutions for medical ultrasound diagnostic or similar devices and application software for medical requirements. The complete task for the development of a system is covered, from concept, system design, development of electronic hardware, software to a finished product, including the required approvals. Our experience in systems development allows us to act as a complete system design, develop and manufacturing group.

- Manufacturing Support

• sonoTECH's Core Competence:

  • Development of a complete system for diagnostic ultrasound including color flow Doppler
  • Development of application software for Windows™ (Radiation Therapy Planning Software)

• sonoTECH has the ability to solve problems that many in-house engineering departments cannot handle because of time, technical or budgetary constraints.

• The depth and breadth of our experience enables us to provide a solid and cost effective solution for our customers.

Design Capabilities:

• The complete computer aided development process is performed according to our certified design policy.   

• sonoTECH's comprehensive electronic design capabilities include: Computer Aided Design (CAD), Schematic Entry, Computer Simulation of Analog and Digital Circuits, PCB Layout.

• Complete tools for measurement and testing of electronic circuits are available, including: Spectrum Analyzer, Logic Analyzers, In-Circuit-Emulators, etc..

• Logic-Synthesis and Simulation is available for FPGAs and EPLDs (Xilinx, Altera, Vantis).

• Simulation Programs for ultrasonic wave field simulation and transducer design allow beam profile optimizations prior to design.

• sonoTECH's complete Software Development capabilities include: Pascal (Delphi™), 'C', and Assembly language programming for Micro Controllers (8051 family), DOS or Windows™ based computers with Pentium™ Processors and Digital Signal Processors (Analog Devices™ ADSP-21261 Sharc™).

Reference Projects:

• Signal processing unit for color flow Doppler processing with the cumulative computing power of 1.3 GFlops in a cluster multi processor architecture of 10 DSPs providing a processing data rate of 30 MHz at 16 bits.

• Development of the complete electronics und system software for a diagnostic ultrasound system including color flow Doppler processing

• Application software under Windows™: Radiation therapy planning software.