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Medical ECG Slide 30

This presentation has highlighted three processor families for various ECG medical devices. This slide shows the same pictures as were shown in the previous slides, but now the processor family that is optimum to meet the needs of these different medical devices is highlighted. The low-end applications feature the low power MCU, the MSP430. The major feature of the MSP430 is its low standard power which makes it very good for applications like an ECG recorder where the instrument is collecting the data occassionally and then calculating the heart rate. The application category is mid-end devices where the C5000, a low power DSP processor is highlighted. Again, there is low active power consumption due to real-time diagnostics. The instrument is not only collecting the ECG data, but also looking for abnormal cardiac patterns, which requires very low active power. The C5000 product family is a DSP, but it complements the MSP430 for mid-end ECG devices. Finally, for the high-end devices with requirements such as a display and a high level operating system, TI has microprocessor based designs with the OMAP and the Sitara families. Those are the three processor families for the three categories of ECG medical devices. Texas Instruments is extremely committed to medical markets and want to make it very easy for designers to use these processors along with the necessary analog components. The following portion of the presentation will discuss the individual processor families and what TI is doing special for medical markets to help customers get started with these products.

PTM Published on: 2012-05-08