NXP and Silex Technology Set the Bar for Wi-Fi Performance in Medical Devices

The complexities of Wi-Fi design pose many challenges to developers designing connected Industrial and IoT applications. From hardware design to certifications to performance, NXP's wireless module partners address these challenges and help simplify the Wi-Fi design process.

NXP works with leading module manufacturers that use the high-performance NXP Wi-Fi SoCs to provide Wi-Fi module solutions that deliver robust and reliable wireless performance. By offering solutions that have predesigned hardware components and pretested compliance certifications, these Wi-Fi modules offer a significant time-to-market-advantage by eliminating the need to integrate antenna and RF circuitry as well as the need for extensive and expensive regulatory testing.

Among NXP's Gold Module Partners is Silex Technology, a wireless connectivity and intelligent edge solutions provider for medical and industrial applications. Silex works closely with NXP to offer secure, high-performance wireless modules based on the IW611 Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth solution and the RW610 Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth Wireless MCU.

As a recommended wireless connectivity supplier for medical devices and other critical applications, Silex Technology modules bring robust connectivity and differentiated value. Silex provides services along with its module products and customer support, including certification services and unique software services such as optimizing NXP's reference drivers to ensure reliability.

Silex has specific expertise in wireless solutions for medical applications, which require extended product longevity, robust cybersecurity, and most importantly, high reliability. Devices such as patient monitors, medical wearables and other connected products are often deployed in a hospital setting with numerous Wi-Fi access points. These critical medical devices must be able to perform without data dropouts or latency.

To demonstrate the unrivaled performance in NXP-based Silex modules, Silex extensively tested the SX-SDMAX Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth module based on the NXP IW611 against competitor modules, measuring Wi-Fi roaming speed. Almost 1000 performance tests were conducted, and the data collected concluded that the NXP-based module delivered an average roaming time of 24 ms, which was 5x faster than the average roaming time of the competitors.

This faster roaming capability makes the NXP-based Silex modules an optimal solution for medical devices and applications where rapid, reliable connectivity is a critical need.