Designing Secure, Safe, Always-Connected Medical Devices: NXP + Silex on i.MX 95, EdgeLock, and SafeAssure
Hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone discuss growing security, functional safety, connectivity, software, and lifecycle demands in connected, intelligent medical devices with guest Babar Hashim of Silex Technology. Hasim explains why these requirements must be designed together from the start and highlights NXP security building blocks such as EdgeLock Secure Enclave, EdgeLock Security Element, and Secure Boot, along with Silex's role integrating connectivity, BSP/software, and system-level security, including investment in FIPS needs. The conversation covers functional safety using NXP's SafeAssure program and i.MX 95's dedicated safety domain, and how early safety planning reduces cost and speeds time to market. Silex positions itself as a long-term embedded partner offering manufacturing, reliable wireless ("When it absolutely must connect"), and lifecycle support like vulnerability monitoring, SBOM management, and security maintenance, and points to its EP200N i.MX 95-based SOM/EVK for evaluating technologies like Ara and UWB.
Episode Resources:
00:00 Welcome and topic
01:09 Meet the guest
01:23 Security and safety challenges
02:48 Building security foundations
04:49 Functional safety early
06:32 Where Silex fits
08:27 Platforms to evaluate
11:25 Wrap up and thanks
