Portwell | Top Medical Imaging Solution Company 2018

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Portwell
Fortifying Medical Equipment, Enhancing Care

CIO VendorAllen Lee, President & CEO
While computing technology innovation equips medical technology manufacturers with a competitive advantage for advanced applications, it also comes with a fair share of challenges of adapting to the speed of advancements. This perhaps can be best explained with the penetration of standard microprocessor architectures in the embedded systems. However, choosing to implement medical grade computers for powering medical imaging equipment is not an easy decision—it entails a blend of solid engineering experience, creative ideas, and the latest technologies. The President & CEO of American Portwell Technology (U.S. subsidiary of Portwell inc.), Allen Lee emphasizes finding a partner well versed with the nitty-gritty of computing platforms for medical imaging applications to build quality products and enable faster time-to-market.

Backed by a team of passionate people with over 20 years of experience in medical applications, Portwell has fortified its foothold in the medical landscape by providing fast and expert computing technology and engineering service to enhance medical imaging equipment. Portwell designs, manufactures and offers services for embedded computing platforms that power various medical applications—from medical modality instruments, clinical diagnostic instruments, surgical imaging management systems to point-of-care devices, ultrasound systems, and more. The extensive product portfolio can be delivered as three broad categories: embedded system computing and Single Board Computers (SBC), specialty computer platforms, and Panel PCs. As an Associate and longtime member of the Intel Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, Portwell designs its products using the latest low-power and multi-core technology.

“The focus on ‘made for customer’ solutions has helped Portwell create a long-lasting relationship with their clients.
The company has been providing computer platforms to the top-tier equipment manufacturers. The enhanced equipment manageability enables the practitioners to perform surgery in a better, more precise, and safer way,” states Lee. Portwell meticulously defines, designs, and plans the product per medical imaging application–ultrasound, digital x-ray, image-guided therapy, surgical imaging, navigation imaging, and dental imaging—catering to the varying nature of requirements.

While designing a wide range of embedded computing platforms for medical applications, the company emphasizes the long product lifespan necessary to meet and exceed the medical industry’s demands for longevity. “It is essential in the medical industry for the equipment to process in a faster way and have longevity. We provide the additional value proposition of extended life cycle product, alongside upgraded technology,” says Lee. The company’s expertise has made a mark in the industry with its computer-on-module product ‘COM Express’ that enables clients to upgrade to a robust technology while helping them meet the required computing power. Moreover, the company uses an efficient thermal simulation tool while designing a system platform, not only to analyze the heat distribution but also to optimize heat dissipation and thermal performance in system solution. Lee believes that for any manufacturing unit it is a prerequisite to restrict risk management in design, development, and manufacturing processes. This issue can be resolved by implementing a high standard of quality process such as Advanced Product Quality Planning. As a Medical Grade Quality Management System (ISO-13485:2016) certified company, Portwell also offers quality management system to their client, enabling them to conform to the safety and quality standards of medical equipment and obtain FDA’s approval.

In one instance, one of the top-tier clients Portwell worked with was facing space limitations and image quality issues. The GPU technology platform from Portwell provided a compact solution to meet their size requirements. By employing Intel® CPU technologies and Nvidia® GPU technologies, Portwell assisted the client in launching a new surgical planning system, which delivers high-resolution images, thereby streamlining their operations.

Scripting similar success stories, “Portwell will continue applying the latest technologies of high computing and imaging processing power for better products, and less power and space consumption,” says Lee. The company envisions changing the landscape of computing applications platforms with their customizable and long-span products, and flexible logistic support.

Top 10 Medical Imaging Solution Companies - 2018

Company
Portwell

Management
Allen Lee, President & CEO

Description
Provides experienced engineering and project teams, complete product solutions, flexible business service, and global logistics support

Portwell News

Portwell Releases a Series of Embedded Computing Platforms with 13th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors

FREMONT, CALIFORNIA - Portwell, Inc., announce the launch of a new series of products designed with the 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, including multiple models of PICMG 1.3 Full-Size Single Board Computers (SBC), industrial ATX motherboards, industrial Mini-ITX motherboards, Embedded Systems, COM Express Type 6 and COM-HPC Client Type modules.

The 13th Gen Intel Core processors family provides even greater performance than its predecessor with the hybrid architecture offering up to 8 Performance-cores (P-cores) and up to 16 Efficient-cores (E-cores) compute capabilities, as well as features such as Intel Thread Director to enable intelligent routing and optimized workloads. Built for multitasking and configurability, the 13th Gen Intel Core processor series offers faster P-cores and more E-cores with support for the latest system memory and data transfer technologies, integrated graphics capable of driving up to four simultaneous 4K displays, and AI acceleration performance with Intel Deep Learning Boost (Intel DL Boost).

Ascending Performance and Enhanced I/Os for Advanced Applications
Designed to significantly enhance computing performance, these new Portwell SBCs, industrial motherboards, and embedded systems are built to support socket type Intel Core i9/i7/i5/i3 processors with up to 24 cores and 32 threads, while the COM Express and COM-HPC modules support soldering type processors with up to 14 cores and 20 threads. The new product series supports DDR5 memory, providing increased bandwidth and improved error correction capabilities, enabling faster data transfer rates and reduced data corruption incidents. In addition, these new products feature PCIe 5.0, which doubles the bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 and can support up to 32 lanes providing significantly faster data transfer rates and improved system responsiveness.

Portwell’s eagerly anticipated new product series encompasses several innovative models that offer cutting-edge features and technologies to meet the diverse requirements and needs for users who demand high performance computing and operation efficiency across the automation, medical/healthcare and networking industries for applications including but not limited to, edge AI, machine automation, machine vision, smart factory, ultrasound, CT, MRI, POS, Kiosk, digital signage, and transportation.

Diverse Product Offering and Dedicated Support For more information about Portwell’s new series of diverse product offering featuring the 13th Gen Intel Core processors, please click on the product links below.

Portwell Launches COM Express Type 6 Basic Module Featuring Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors with Built-in AI Acceleration

PCOM-B65A enables diverse edge AI embedded computing use cases in medical devices, intelligent healthcare, industrial control, factory automation and smart city
FREMONT - American Portwell Technology, Inc., (https://www.portwell.com) a wholly owned subsidiary of Portwell, Inc., a world-leading innovator for Industrial PC (IPC) and embedded computing solutions, a Titanium Partner of Intel® Partner Alliance, launches PCOM-B65A, the latest addition to its ever-expanding computer-on-module (COM) family. This module is designed with the new generation Intel® Core™ Ultra processors, and is based on the COM Express Basic size form factor (125 mm x 95 mm).
The PCOM-B65A is Portwell’s highly anticipated response to the increasingly high demand and requirements from the diverse edge AI computing applications to deliver optimized performance per watt, more advanced I/O interfaces, and enhanced memory and storage capacity. Built upon the well-recognized Computer-on-Module (COM) modular computing concept and the latest COM Express Module Base Specification Rev 3.1, the Portwell PCOM-B65A offers a new computer module solution that combines leading CPU technology with high-speed input/output interfaces enabling greater upgradeability and configuration flexibility.
Intel’s Brand New Processor Architecture and Cutting-Edge Manufacturing Process
The new Intel® Core™ Ultra processor series is the first processor built on the Intel® 4 process technology, and uses Foveros 3D advanced packaging technology delivering greater performance in a smaller footprint while optimizing for cost and power efficiency. More particularly, the Intel Core Ultra processor encompasses four tiles and a base die to form a complete processor chip: an SoC tile, a graphics tile (GPU), a compute tile (CPU) and an I/O tile. Furthermore, boosting compute performance to the next level with efficiency, the Intel Core Ultra processors provide three tiers of CPU cores offering up to 16 cores (six Performance-cores (P-cores), eight Efficient-cores (E-cores), two low-power Efficient-cores (LP E-cores)), and 22 threads. It also integrates an Intel® Arc™ GPU featuring up to eight Xe cores (128 EUs, or execution units), and AI-based Xe Super Sampling (XeSS), enhancing rapid and dynamic visual processing. Moreover, it includes Intel’s newest NPU, the Intel® AI Boost, purpose-built to handle long/longer-running AI workloads at low power, and complementing AI capabilities handled on both the CPU and GPU, to enable more efficient AI inference capabilities for various power-constrained edge applications.
AI Is Everywhere Across the Network and Edge
Delivering advanced computing performance, power-efficient AI acceleration at the edge, and support for demanding visual workloads, the Intel® Core™ Ultra processor series leads innovation across the industry. The Portwell PCOM-B65A COM Express Type 6 Basic module, designed with the Intel Core Ultra processors, offers optimized value-performance balance, high scalability and configuration flexibility, to empower agile embedded computing solutions for diverse edge AI uses cases including, but not limited to, medical devices, intelligent healthcare, industrial control, factory automation and smart city.
And more specifically, PCOM-B65A can be designed as a driving force for edge servers, or a core computing component for high-performance embedded computers in a small footprint. For instance, the Portwell PCOM-B65A can support onboard PCIe NVMe SSD to reduce the need for additional storage deployment on the carrier board. This, in turn, helps optimize system configuration, while reducing the physical size to meet the challenging layout and space constraints in various edge computing use conditions.
Specialized Design and Manufacturing Services to Accelerate Time to Market
As a trusted partner in industrial and embedded computing solutions, Portwell has over 30 years of experience in providing comprehensive project support, including product design, design guidelines, schematic reviews, technical expertise, production, and certification processes. Portwell also provides customers with the latest product roadmaps to facilitate early planning for next-generation product upgrades and new projects.
The Portwell PCOM-B65A COM Express Type 6 Basic module is a high-performance and highly reliable computing module solution built on the advanced Intel® Core™ Ultra processors and long-standing COM Express standard that balances cost, functionality, and performance. It provides industrial-grade features that accelerate real-time performance and intelligence, and offers highly scalable embedded computing design options for the now and ever-emerging “AI Everywhere” use cases. Not only that, but our customers also benefit from the peace of mind they get from the long life cycle support of 10+ years inherent with the Portwell PCOM-B65A.