TI HealthTech eNews --  Health | Fitness | Imaging
2Q 2013 
Welcome to TI HealthTech eNews. This newsletter is replacing TI Medical e-News. Below you will find news and information around the latest semiconductor components for healthcare applications. To manage your newsletter subscriptions click here. For further information on TI HealthTech, please visit www.ti.com/healthtech.
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Featured Products
TI is pleased to announce the release of the AFE4490. The first product in the previously announced AFE44xx family. The AFE4490 integrates all the front end components and the associated timing control circuitry of a typical photometry solution such as clinical Pulse Ox. By incorporating fully programmable transmitter and receiver circuits into one device, the AFE4490 family requires less design time, less board space and less in-house analog design expertise compared to discrete solutions.

» Learn more, download datasheet, and order samples at www.ti.com/afe4490.

The CC2541 is a power-optimized true system-on-chip (SoC) solution for both Bluetooth low energy and proprietary 2.4-GHz applications. It enables robust network nodes to be built with low total bill-of-material costs. The CC2541 combines the excellent performance of a leading RF transceiver with an industry-standard enhanced 8051 MCU, in-system programmable flash memory, 8-KB RAM, and many other powerful supporting features and peripherals. The CC2541 is highly suited for health and fitness applications where ultralow power consumption is required such as sport watches and other wearable fitness monitoring equipment.

» Learn more, download datasheet, and order samples at www.ti.com/product/cc2541.

Offering more memory in its 16-bit microcontroller portfolio than ever before, MSP430 announces the MSP430F665x microcontrollers with embedded 512K Flash and 64K RAM. The MSP430F66xx microcontrollers can now better support over-the-air firmware updates, graphical software libraries and more complex computing algorithms. Further easing system design, the new MSP430 family offers advanced analog integration, providing an embedded signal chain to enhance analog performance for sensor interfaces, and eliminate external components. The combination of larger memory, integrated analog and USB allows for smaller form factors and reduced system cost along with the ultra-low-power performance of the MSP portfolio. Leveraging 15+ years of expertise in microcontrollers and best in class Ultra low power analog integration, TI is offering the most awarded and largest portfolio of embedded technologies suited for portable medical, health and fitness applications. Committed to improve patients diagnostic and therapy devices, TI drives innovation in telehealth and solves integration challenges across technology nodes

» Learn more, download datasheet, and order samples.

Featured Video
TI HealthTech is passionate about developing innovative components to promote healthier lives, and is committed to continually advancing the landscape for healthcare around the world. With the development of the TI HealthTech Health Hub, TI helps show our customers the possibilities that TI technology can fuel by showcasing a suite of demo's featuring Body worn sensors with Bluetooth low energy for health and fitness applications.

These are end-to-end TI component demonstrations including analog front ends such as the AFE4490 and AFE4300, MCU's such as the MSP4305528, and BLE modules featuring the CC2541 for connectivity. With demo's for pulse ox, body composition, heart rate, ECG, and pedometers, TI HealthTech helps our customers innovate while accelerating time to market!
Imagine a world in which the technology for medical diagnosis and treatment was as mobile as a cell phone, lowering health-care costs and reducing the need for hospital stays. In this video, TI will discuss microwatt embedded processing chips that are essential components in driving future implantable medical devices which will lead to more people receiving both treatment and preventive care.
Summary: In this whiteboard series video, learn about enabling technologies that will one day provide everyone with continuous access to medical expertise via systems that can constantly monitor individuals' health data.
Featured Selection & Application Resources
Product Description Package/Pins Samples EVM/Tool
MSP430F6659 MSP430F66xx Mixed Signal Microcontroller LQFP (PZ) | 100 Order here Tool available
AFE4490 Integrated Analog Front End for Pulse Oximeters WQFN (RHA) | 40 Order here EVM available
CC2541 2.4-GHz Bluetooth® low energy and Proprietary System-on-Chip VQFN (RHA) | 40 Order here EVM available
Other Resources
Medical care provides a diverse growth opportunity for designers and manufacturers of electronic systems. This growth is fueled by new discoveries, the need to contain treatment costs and enhance diagnostics and the increasing number of people needing affordable health care. In this white paper, learn about the trends and how semiconductor innovation is helping medical systems developers implement new ways of delivering medical care and wellness.

» Learn more

» Medical Imaging Application Guide
» Consumer Medical Applications Guide
» Diagnostics, Patient Monitoring, and Therapy Applications Guide
» ECG & EEG Quick Reference Guide
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