Medical & healthcare

Design smarter, high-performance medical and healthcare systems using our analog and embedded processing products and expertise

We remain committed to helping you innovate and accelerate your medical and healthcare designs. Whether you’re working on prevention, diagnosis or treatment applications, our products and design resources are aimed at getting your projects to market as quickly as possible. 

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Why choose TI for your medical and healthcare applications?

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Deliver continuous innovation

Designed with medical and healthcare in mind, our comprehensive analog and embedded processing portfolio equips you with the breakthrough technology you need.

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Improve SNR for enhanced imaging quality

By minimizing interference with other components in your design, our low-noise devices enable you to get the most out of your imaging systems.

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Easily meet medical design safety requirements

Supporting standards such as the IEC 60601-1, our integrated isolated devices and power modules help you save design time and support your medical safety features.

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Extend your battery life

Our low quiescent signal chain, power and low-power connectivity solutions extend battery and shelf life, so you can get the most out of your batteries.

Engineering smarter, high-performance medical systems

Wide range of analog front-ends across patient monitoring and imaging

Our analog front-ends have a strong heritage in clinical and wellness systems. Our biosensing AFEs offer an entire standalone and multi-modal analog signal chain for ECG, PPG, EEG, and ICG.  Our ultrasound AFE portfolio features a wide assortment of highly-integrated, analog front-end solutions for premium, high to mid-end, cart-based systems, and portable ultrasound systems. 

Find products that offer flexibility in combinations of: 

  • Channel count interfaces (LVDS/JESD)
  • Time gain compensation (TGC)
  • Continuous wave (CW) mode signal bandwidths
  • Power versus noise trade-offs
  • High-channel count X-ray and CT scanners 
Application brief
AFE5832LP and AFE5832 Ultrasound AFE for Ultra-Portable Applications
Read about how these analog front ends make it possible todelivery ≥ 64-CH ultrasound systems to rural physicians and remote villages at a fraction of the price of traditional systems.
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Analog Design Journal
Design and analysis of a TGC circuit to drive the control voltage
Learn how our low-noise analog front ends (AFEs) have a time-gain control (TGC) feature that supports ultrasound applications because they can alter the gain of the receiver as a function of time.
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White paper
Evolving Semiconductor Technologies for Modern Telehealth Applications
Health care continues to evolve toward self-treatment and away from in-person appointments. Learn how new  technologies have given access to health care tools for self-monitoring and remote treatments.
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Featured products for Integrated Analog Front End (AFE)
AFE4960 ACTIVE Two-channel ECG analog front end with integrated respiration and pace detection
TX7516 ACTIVE 16-channel five-level transmitter
AFE58JD48 ACTIVE 12.8-GB JESD204B ultrasound AFE with 16-bit 125-MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC)

Ultra-Low noise power and low EMI for high precision and sensitive signal chain performance

The need for low-noise LDO regulators and switching converters, precision monitoring and reliable protection is fundamental to enabling precision signal chain in medical applications, such as imaging and patient monitoring. Our dedicated power process technologies and advanced circuit and test techniques, increase accuracy, minimize distortion and reduce noise across both linear and switching power converters. Mitigating a switching regulator EMI can be a major challenge for many power-supply designers. Our devices with built-in EMI-reduction technologies help save design time while supporting you to comply with medical safety standard IEC60601-1. 

White paper
Time-Saving and Cost-Effective Innovations for EMI Reduction (Rev. A)
Learn about how, as electronic systems become increasingly dense and interconnected, reducing the effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) becomes an increasingly critical system design consideration.
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Technical article
LDO basics: noise – how a noise-reduction pin improves system performance
Understand why selecting a low-noise LDO and taking steps to reduce internal noise are integral to generating clean supply rails that won’t compromise system performance.
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Application note
Long-Term Drift in Voltage References
This application note describes the Long-Term Drift parameter. Factors which affect it, how it is measured and gives sample profiles of some of our precision voltage references.
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Featured products for ultra-low noise and Low EMI power
TPS7A94 ACTIVE 1-A, ultra-low noise, ultra-high PSRR, RF voltage regulator
LMQ61460-Q1 ACTIVE Automotive 3-V to 36-V, 6-A low EMI synchronous step-down quiet converter with integrated capacitors
REF70 ACTIVE Ultra-high-precision voltage reference with low noise and low drift

High-voltage isolation for robust and reliable system operation

Our isolation portfolio combines the highest working-voltage and highest reliability to enable extended system lifetime and protection across medical applications, such as patient monitoring, AED and infusion pumps. 

Our isolation portfolio is able to supply isolated signals with efficient, compact and high-performance isolated power. 

Creepage, clearance, and distance through insulation (DTI) are critical distances that are evaluated in any medical equipment certification of digital isolators as per IEC60601-1 medical standard. When medical equipment manufacturers choose our certified digital isolators for their design, they are confident that the insulation performance has been verified by third-party certification bodies. 

Application note
Topology Selection for Isolated Power Supplies in Patient Monitor (Rev. A)
This application report talks about different topologies for isolated power and data. It dwells deeper into the critical challenges associated with isolated power and data such as output regulation, feedback mechanism and more.
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White paper
Why are Digital Isolators Certified to Meet Electrical Equipment Standards?
Certification of digital isolators to equipment standards is not only possible but highly recommended for semiconductor suppliers, as it makes the equipment manufacturer’s safety approval process much easier.
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Featured products for high-voltage isolation
ISOUSB211 ACTIVE Low-emission isolated USB repeater supporting low, high and full speed
UCC12050 ACTIVE 500-mW, high-efficiency, 5-kVRMS isolated DC/DC converter
ISO7740 ACTIVE Robust EMC, quad-channel, 4/0, reinforced digital isolator

Transform healthcare with artificial intelligence

Get the most out of your designs with high-performance computer vision, sensor fusion and AI processing with easily-programmable hardware accelerators across our processor families. Design fast with Python, TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime, TVM, GStreamer, Docker and ROS and go to market in less time with production-ready solutions with our TI Edge AI ecosystem. Whether it’s a simple design or more complex, ignite your innovation with extensive and easy-to-use hardware, software, and tools, including online access to industry experts.

Application note
PRU-ICSS Feature Comparison (Rev. G)
This application report documents the feature differences between the PRU Subsystems available on our processors.
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Video
Directly connect an ADC to microprocessor with Sitara MPU and MCU
This demo video explores the use of our ADC-PHI-PRU-EVM Adapter to connect a Sitara MPU and precision ADC. Watch now to see how you can save BOM cost and board space.
Video series
Process This: Simplify your design and reduce the cost of your data acquisition system
FPGA based data acquisition systems use three different devices to convert and process data. In this webinar, learn how you can simplify your system and reduce costs with our energy efficient AM64x processor.
Featured products for enabling AI
AM623 ACTIVE Internet of Things (IoT) and gateway SoC with Arm® Cortex®-A53-based object and gesture recognition
DRA821U ACTIVE Dual Arm Cortex-A72, quad Cortex-R5F, 4-port Ethernet switch, and a PCIe controller
DRA782 ACTIVE SoC processor w/ 2x 500 MHz C66x DSP and 2 dual Arm Cortex-M4 for audio amplifier

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