Maxim's portfolio of security devices offers a layer of protection for medical devices, including single-use products, surgical instruments, medication cartridges, and pulse oximetry probes. The devices are also suitable for authenticating Internet of Things (IoT) nodes and securely managing limited-use consumables.
To ensure patient safety, healthcare workers must process, sterilize, and handle many consumable and disposable medical products under carefully controlled conditions. By designing authentication and security features into medical devices, manufacturers and healthcare facilities can help ensure that these limited-use medical products cannot be reused or used multiple times, and that counterfeit products can be detected and removed from the supply chain effectively and efficiently.
Maxim's security devices for disposable medical devices protect medical devices against security breaches, counterfeiting, and unauthorized overuse. Offering both contact and contactless authentication solutions, Maxim's security devices rely on challenge-response protocols to establish a device's identity. The secure authenticators offer easy integration into embedded designs, helping to meet Unique Device Identification (UDI) requirements as established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Maxim's DeepCover DS28C36 and DS28E36 secure authenticators feature cryptographic tools derived from integrated symmetric and asymmetric security functions. The DS28E38 DeepCover secure authenticator is an ECDSA public-key-based device and incorporates Maxim's ChipDNA Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) technology to prevent invasive physical attacks. The DS28E83 DeepCover single-wire authenticator offers high radiation resistance, allowing users to program or calibrate data before medical sterilization.
