A few days ago,Texas Instruments (TI) announced the availability of an embedded processor software toolkit that fully meets the needs of medical diagnostic ultrasound product manufacturers. Consistent commitment to high performance analog products. The first in this TI family of products, the toolkit helps manufacturers easily develop ultrasound applications using the increased processing power of TI‘s C64x+ DSP platforms, enabling medical institutions and healthcare workers to deliver faster and more accurate patient care Provide diagnostic results.

The latest embedded processor software toolkit (STK) for medical diagnostic ultrasound products enables optimized implementation of general-purpose processing blocks to take full advantage of the high performance and low power consumption of TI‘s C64x+ architecture and significantly reduce ultrasound system development time. In addition, TI offers the TMS320C6455 DSP Starter Kit (DSK) for medical imaging, a low-cost development platform that provides manufacturers with an easy-to-use solution for evaluating and leveraging highly programmable DSP algorithms for developing medical imaging products Gain the lead in terms of time.

Main features and advantages:

Optimized, the Universal Ultrasound Block‘s C64x+ software modules help manufacturers accelerate time-to-market while improving coding efficiency and system performance while reducing cost and power consumption.

Full source code for all modules provides developers with full visibility and enables module customization and differentiation.

By abstracting modules, a well-defined API simplifies development while allowing easy integration into existing systems.

Complete benchmarks make evaluation of module implementations and comparisons with other architectures quick and easy.

A comprehensive test bench ensures module functionality and facilitates evaluation and development. Custom test vectors can be easily added for functional and cycle performance checks for any input.

The complete documentation for each optimization module provides coding instructions on the computational optimization method for the C64x+ kernel, which can be used as a model for optimizing other coding modules.

One year of technical support and patches, including the latest patches and support released by the TI application team within the next year.

"Over the next few years, we expect a major shift in medical imaging applications, from traditional imaging modalities limited to basic diagnostic functions to smaller, high-accuracy portable devices," said Susie Inouye, director of research and president, Databeans. New industrial environment. Clearly, manufacturers need more flexible, portable, low-cost ultrasound equipment, and TI‘s digital signal processors with low power consumption, high performance and flexible programmability will benefit them."