Efficiently achieve IEC 60601 certification for your patient care applications

Design challenges of wearable healthcare and patient monitors
Meet your design requirements for connected and remote patient care while meeting International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60601-1 isolation requirements. Take advantage of our engineering expertise and in-depth support when designing next-generation medical equipment with our microcontrollers, real-time processors, and power-management and signal-chain products.

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Why choose TI for your hospital patient care design?

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Meet your safety requirements

Access our comprehensive product portfolio supporting the IEC 60601-1-8 standard for generating medical alarms in patient monitors.

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Achieve reliable system operation

Obtain high working voltages and high reliability in your designs to enable extended equipment lifetimes and protect monitoring data.

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Scale your biosensing analog front-end needs

Design entire stand-alone and multimodal analog signal chains for ECGs, PPGs, EEGs and ICGs.

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Enhance battery protection

Enable multibattery backups and reduce solution size using our power-dense battery-management integrated circuits, which support any input source or charging topology.

Engineering advanced hospital patient care designs

Achieve IEC 60601-1-8 safety compliance in patient monitors

A patient’s life often depends on the proper functionality of medical devices, which must comply with basic safety and performance requirements defined by standards bodies such as the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In most cases, the essential performance of a medical device includes raising both visual and auditory alarms in order to take corrective action.

Multiparameter patient monitors, neonatal warmers and incubators, anesthesia delivery systems, dialysis machines, infusion pumps, ventilators, and surgical equipment are all examples of medical equipment that need an alarm.

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Demystifying medical alarm designs, part 1: IEC60601-1-8 standard requirements
Read about the various types of medical alarms and typical terminology found in patient monitoring applications, including requirements to achieve IEC60601-1-8 certification.
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Demystifying medical alarm design, part 2: Design inputs and existing techniques
Read more about the design inputs and existing implementation methods for medical alarm systems, including a block diagram example.
This application note gives an in-depth understanding of the regulatory requirements and how the DAC53701 smart DAC provides a simple way to implement the alarm with configurable in-built waveforms triggered by a GPI.
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IEC 60601-1-2-compliant isolation for reliable system operation

The IEC 60601-1-2 standard calls for the evaluation of critical distances in any medical equipment certification of digital isolators – specifically creepage, clearance and distance through insulation. Our products offer high working voltages and high reliability, enabling you to design equipment with extended lifetimes. Compliance with IEC 60601-1-2 also helps achieve safety in terms of data and power isolation.

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Solving space challenges with isolated bias supplies
With growing space and robustness challenges in isolated power systems, designers have to consider an integrated bias supply solution. Watch our video to learn more. 
This application report talks about different topologies for isolated power and data. It dives deeper into the critical design challenges associated with isolated power and data, along with suitable power architectures.
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Integrated AFE ICs for PPG, ECG, EEG & ICG

Our biosensing analog front ends offer an entire stand-alone and multimodal analog signal chain for electrocardiograms (ECGs), photoplethysmographies (PPGs), electroencephalograms (EEGs), and indocyanine green angiographies (ICGs). For wearables and multimodal sensing needs, we have integrated all PPG, ECG and ICG signal chains into one device. We designed our analog front ends to address analog signal conditioning and analog-to-digital channel conversion, while enabling scalability and maximum flexibility in sensor and industrial designs. 

Power architecture plays a significant role in achieving longer battery life. Learn about multiple ways to improve battery life in wearable patient monitors and medical patches in this article
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No strings attached: Creating next-generation wireless patient monitors
Read how a remote monitoring patch can be designed with our AFEs and BLE chips.
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Key considerations for designing electrocardiogram (ECG) front-end circuit
In this video, we will talk about the front-end circuit design, right leg drive and lead-off detection schemes for electrocardiogram (ECG) applications. 
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Manage multiple batteries and create scalable battery backup

Increase power density and overall battery and system protection in medical applications with our battery-management technology.

Benefits:

  • Input and output over- and undervoltage and current protection in safety-critical applications.
  • Support for multibattery chemistries (lithium ion, nickel metal hydride, lead acid, supercapacitor) and multicell configurations (one to six cells).
  • Seamless transition to backup power in the event of a main power failure.
  • Multibattery-pack solutions for flexible and scalable battery-backup solutions, with options for load sharing and adjustable output voltages.
Learn more about our autonomous battery management system solutions that keep your design costs low and reduce your time to market.
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Patients in a hospital intensive-care unit require constant monitoring with equipment that must have continuous  power. 
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Battery management deep dive on-demand technical training
This technical training was specifically developed for design engineers working with power supply for battery-powered systems. Resources and design tools are provided for each training to complete your training experience.

A unified, open-source development platform lets you reuse code across projects

Get the most out of your designs with high-performance computer vision, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence (AI) processing, with easily programmable hardware accelerators across our processor families. The TI edge AI ecosystem gets you to market faster with production-ready solutions and online access to industry experts, whether you're designing with Python, TensorFlow Lite, Open Neural Network Exchange Runtime, Tensor Virtual Machine, GStreamer, Docker or Robot Operating System. 

This application report documents the feature differences between the PRU Subsystems available on different TI processors.
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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. Save BOM cost and board space when analyzing distributed multi-sensor analog inputs by removing an FPGA from your system.
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Process this: Edge AI technology topics
Learn about TI edge AI technology by watching archived webinars from the "Process this" series.
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