Medical Software Development On KeyStone™ Processors

The role of embedded software developers has become increasingly important in the innovation of medical technology. Embedded processors used in many medical systems these days need to handle high levels of computational complexity in real-time and at low power. For example, innovative digital signal processors (DSPs) from Texas Instruments (TI) have enabled diagnostic systems that achieve higher resolution image scans and provide caregivers access to key clinical data in real time. This ability to meet the processing constraints of medical systems is not only a function of the inherent parallelism in TI’s KeyStone architecture but also a function of how well software developers are able to leverage its advanced architecture: multiple cores, rapid data paths, high-speed peripherals and other features. To that end, TI has created a solid software development ecosystem to enable the quick and easy development of optimized medical applications that fully utilize TI’s high-performance KeyStone-based system-on-chip (SoC).