Logic and Texas Instruments offer Zoom Medical OMAP35x Development Kit and System on Modules (SOM) for medical innovations
(Technology News, 19 Jun 2008 )
As the desire to offer consumers smaller, easier-to-use medical products grows, Logic and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) released a new development kit specifically designed to quickly bring new medical products to market. The new Zoom Medical OMAP35x Development Kit and companion System on Modules (SOMs) use TI痴 OMAP35x processor to provide developers with a cost-effective, compact way to design and produce medical, industrial and other embedded applications.
The development kit allows medical product companies to easily develop sophisticated integrated medical devices with advanced graphical user interface, smart and real-time physiological processing, and wired and wireless connectivity options for patient monitoring and data logging applications. All of this is accomplished with a low cost, highly flexible software development environment, and the SOM design of the medical development kit provides rapid manufacturing to help avoid additional trials or product releases.
OMAP processors drive innovative and easy-to-use medical products TI痴 OMAP35x processors that drive these modules provide laptop-like performance at handheld power levels, with an integrated ARM Cortex-A8 core, TMS320C64x+ digital signal processor (DSP), 2D/3D graphics engine and video accelerators. By combining this high-performance processor with the memory and connectivity (wired and wireless) subsystems and a full operating system into an off-the-shelf OMAP35x SOM, developers can take a superior end-product to market quickly and easily. For more information on OMAP, see http://www.ti.com/omap35xpr.
The OMAP35x processors in the 0.4mm pitch BGA package enables Package-On-Package capability to mount the memory on top of the OMAP35x processor. This means equipment manufacturers can deliver the smallest form factor and lowest power for medical and other embedded applications. These packages often require complex design and manufacturing, but the SOM module minimizes these challenges.
